On Mon, Feb 24, 2020, at 1:11 PM, Florian Weimer wrote:
Sometimes, users run into problems because they install nss_nis on
x86_64 and want to use 32-bit applications, but those do not work
correctly because nss_nis.i686 is not installed. I think we have an
opportunity here to improve the system administrator experience with
reasonable effort.
If we add this to nss_nis.spec:
%ifarch x86_64
Recommends: (nss_nis(x86-32) if glibc(x86-32))
%endif
What about also adding
%ifarch i686
Supplements: (glibc(x86-32) if (nss_nis(x86-64))
%endif
(Untested)
I'd greatly prefer to avoid hard deps where they aren't absolutely necessary.
V/r,
James Cassell
>
> then when the user installs nss_nis after glibc.i686, they will get both
> packages, as expected.
>
> Unfortunately, it does not work if nss_nis.x86_64 is installed first.
> Is there a way to fix this aspect?
>
> What would be a good way to abstract this into some RPM macro, so that
> we can apply this to other plugins as well?
>
> Thanks,
> Florian