On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 03:04:54PM -0600, Orion Poplawski wrote:
> Here's a question. Should -devel package requirements be of the form:
>
> Requires: package-devel.%{arch}
Maybe it makes more sense to disallow rpm from satisfying cross-arch
dependencies at all. noarch belongs to all archs in this
sense. E.g. in the noarch, i386, x86_64 world, don't allow i386
packages to satisfy depednencies of x86_64 and vice-versa.
> I ask because of the following:
>
> # yum list libX11-devel
> Loading "installonlyn" plugin
> Setting up repositories
> Reading repository metadata in from local files
> Excluding Packages from Fedora Core 6 - x86_64 - Updates
> Finished
> Installed Packages
> libX11-devel.i386 1.0.3-6.fc6 installed
> Available Packages
> libX11-devel.x86_64 1.0.3-7.fc6 updates
> libX11-devel.i386 1.0.3-7.fc6 updates
> [root@apollo ~]# rpm -e libX11-devel
> error: Failed dependencies:
> libX11-devel is needed by (installed) libXpm-devel-3.5.5-3.x86_64
> libX11-devel is needed by (installed)
> libXt-devel-1.0.2-3.1.fc6.x86_64
> libX11-devel is needed by (installed) libXmu-devel-1.0.2-5.x86_64
> libX11-devel is needed by (installed)
> libXext-devel-1.0.1-2.1.x86_64
> libX11-devel is needed by (installed)
> mesa-libGL-devel-6.5.1-9.fc6.x86_64
> libX11-devel is needed by (installed) libXpm-devel-3.5.5-3.i386
> libX11-devel is needed by (installed)
> libXt-devel-1.0.2-3.1.fc6.i386
> libX11-devel is needed by (installed) libXext-devel-1.0.1-2.1.i386
>
>
> Should the libXpm-devel-3.5.5-3.x86_64 requirement for "libX11-devel" be
> satisfied by libX11-devel.i386? The needed libraries won't be there for
> linking.
>
> Can this be done in packaging, or does this need to be done in rpm?
>
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