On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 14:33 -0400, Nick Bargnesi wrote: > On Apr 4, 2005 11:36 AM, Caolan McNamara <caolanm@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > If a 32bit package, e.g. Openoffice.org is installed on x86_64 and it > > explicitly "Requires:" something. Do rpm and update managers > > automatically ignore matching 64bit packages for that Requires and > > demand a 32bit package to fulfill the require ? i.e. > > Yum can resolve dependencies within any architecture. I don't know if > yum would automatically ignore it but rpm definitely won't fullfil > requirements when packages are across architectures. > > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/beta/show_bug.cgi?id=153128 > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/beta/show_bug.cgi?id=153129 > > where the error messages would suggest that the i386 libgcj and > > startup-notification are missing, while rpm -qR lists them as Required. ok, apparently stuff like Requires: libgcj is actually worthless :-), though Requires: libgcj.so.6 would do what we want here. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=153129 for details. C.
