On Mon, Feb 24, 2020, at 4:51 PM, Florian Weimer wrote: > * James Cassell: > > > On Mon, Feb 24, 2020, at 1:11 PM, Florian Weimer wrote: > >> Sometimes, users run into problems because they install nss_nis on > >> x86_64 and want to use 32-bit applications, but those do not work > >> correctly because nss_nis.i686 is not installed. I think we have an > >> opportunity here to improve the system administrator experience with > >> reasonable effort. > >> > >> If we add this to nss_nis.spec: > >> > >> %ifarch x86_64 > >> Recommends: (nss_nis(x86-32) if glibc(x86-32)) > >> %endif > > > > What about also adding > > > > %ifarch i686 > > Supplements: (glibc(x86-32) if (nss_nis(x86-64)) > > %endif > > > > (Untested) > > Does this have the same non-ideal behavior regarding late installation > of glibc.i686? > I believe the combo of the two will avoid the late install issue, and also avoid modifying any other SPEC. Again, not tested. > > I'd greatly prefer to avoid hard deps where they aren't absolutely > > necessary. > > Recommends: isn't a hard dependency? > Recommends is weak. I was referring to another message in the thread that suggested using Depends: V/r, James Cassell _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx