Re: [Fedora-packaging] RFC: Dropping %{?_isa} hack

[Neal Gompa]

On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 4:50 PM, 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.
>
> So then what's the reason of using %{?_isa}? Just some old cruft from yum era?
> Can we drop it? Thoughts?

Actually, libsolv doesn't quite do this all the time in every case.
There were a few fixes to libsolv post 0.6.30 for handling more
conditions of it.

It also avoids weird situations where you get arch switching with
package splits and obsoletes...