V Mon, Mar 03, 2025 at 09:54:35AM -0600, Michael Cronenworth napsal(a): > Hi all, > > The latest version of Wine (Windows compatibility binaries) has introduced a > new architecture of loading itself with a new "WoW64" system. Microsoft's > "WoW64" allows 32-bit binaries to run within a 64-bit environment. Wine has > traditionally supported this with pointing to files in /usr/lib for 32-bit > and /usr/lib64 for 64-bit. Starting with 10.2 the architecture now searches > for binaries in the same library path for both arches. Meaning /usr/lib for > both 32-bit and 64-bit and /usr/lib64 for both. > > An easy update for Fedora is to symlink the /usr/lib/wine directories to > /usr/lib64/wine and vice versa. The differing arch binaries would not live > in the wrong path, but the symlinks have me doubting this as a good > solution. This primarily affects upgrades of existing Wine installations > using the old WoW64 architecture. The symlinks are not required for new Wine > installations. > > Thoughts? > RPM poorly handles changing symlinks to directories (or vice versa?). This shortcoming can be mitigated with an RPM scriptlet, but scriptlets are frown by OSTree distribution systems. In case you will need to revert the symlink, your could have problems. -- Petr
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