On Fri, 25 Sep 2015 19:40:16 +0200, Sandro Mani wrote:
>>> You could ask releng to add apitrace-libs to the multilib whitelist:
>>>
>>>
https://pagure.io/mash/new_issue
>>>
>>> However, I have to wonder, why wouldn't the library have a -devel
>>> package? Is there no way to link against that library?
>> Looks like a package mistake:
>>
>>
http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/apitrace.git/plain/apitrace.spec
>>
>> The contents of apitrace-libs are files below %{_libdir}/%{name}/ which
>> seem to be plugin libraries:
>>
>>
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/rpminfo?rpmID=6776085
>>
>> /usr/lib64/apitrace/
>> /usr/lib64/apitrace/scripts/*.py
>> /usr/lib64/apitrace/wrappers/*.so
>>
>> Plus, there's a circular dependency between apitrace <->
apitrace-libs,
>> so splitting off the subpackage is kind of strange. Nothing else depends
>> on the apitrace-libs package.
> The background of the split is #1068620 - installing the 32bit wrapper
> libraries allowes you to trace 32bit apps on 64bit systems.
Well, then adding the i686 build to the mash x86_64 multilib compose whitelist
cannot be avoided -- as it's needed to really fix #1068620.