On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 10:12:52PM +0200, Dan Horák wrote:
On Fri, 22 Aug 2014 21:01:16 +0100
"Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones(a)redhat.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 09:17:16PM +0200, Dan Horák wrote:
> > On Fri, 22 Aug 2014 21:11:50 +0200
> > Florian Weimer <fw(a)deneb.enyo.de> wrote:
> >
> > > What is the recommended way to contact the Ocaml maintainers?
> > >
> > > There is a systematic packaging bug which introduces unusable i686
> > > packages into the x86_64 compose, and despite repeated messages to
> > > ocaml-devel, I did not receive a response:
> > >
> > >
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https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/ocaml-devel/2014-July/002265.ht...
>
> This list is dead AFAIK. I certainly haven't read it in many years,
> and we've been trying to delete it (without success, it seems).
>
> > hm, Richard (rwmjones) is usually very responsive ...
> >
> > I think the solution for the i686 ocaml devel files is to update the
> > multilib policy in mash to exclude ocaml-* completely
>
> As Dan says, multilib is inappropriate for OCaml. There's never any
> reason why you would want to use 32 bit OCaml packages if you have a
> 64 bit machine. So simply blocking i686 on x86-64 is the way to go.
>
> There is even a bug about it, but I cannot find it in BZ right now.
patch for mash sent as
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/buildsys/2014-August/004357.html
Thanks. Although obviously I'm not able to test that particular
patch, it does look like the right fix.
Rich.
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