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On Thu, 2018-01-18 at 23:04 +0100, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
> On Thursday, 18 January 2018 at 22:50, Igor Gnatenko wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Does anybody know why we are still using %{?_isa} thing?
> >
> > DNF/libsolv forcefully install 64bit package for any 32bit package in
> > transaction. So it is not possible to get 32bit package without 64bit
> > counterpart.
>
> Huh? You can't be serious. I've been keeping a 32bit-only set of wine
> packages on my machine for quite some time and I'd be quite annoyed
> if I suddenly had to install all corresponding 64bit ones, too.
Well, I am pretty serious. I think you just didn't notice all those 64bit
packages because you had them already installed.
$ sudo dnf install wine
[…]
libatomic i686 7.2.1-6.fc28 rawhide 40 k
libatomic x86_64 7.2.1-6.fc28 rawhide 40 k
[…]
> When did you implement this change and for which Fedora release?
Since DNF was implemented?
> Could you point to its announcement?
Well, this particular thing was never discussed (at least to my knowledge).
> > So then what's the reason of using %{?_isa}? Just some old cruft from yum
> > era?
> > Can we drop it? Thoughts?
>
> The reason is to ensure 64bit subpackages dependency on main package
> won't be satisfied by a 32bit counterpart and vice-versa. This has
> always been the case.
Except that 64bit package is always pulled in → no need for pulling 32bit
package. Yeah, requiring 32bit package from 64bit one (aka wine) is different
case (it doesn't really use %{?_isa}) and is valid one.
- --
- -Igor Gnatenko
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