[Fedora-packaging] Re: -devel arch dependencies

[Axel Thimm]

On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 03:04:54PM -0600, Orion Poplawski wrote:
>  Here's a question.  Should -devel package requirements be of the
> form:
>  
>  Requires: package-devel.%{arch} 
Maybe it makes more sense to disallow rpm from satisfying cross-arch
dependencies at all. noarch belongs to all archs in this
sense. E.g. in the noarch, i386, x86_64 world, don't allow i386
packages to satisfy depednencies of x86_64 and vice-versa.

>  I ask because of the following:
>  
>  # yum list libX11-devel
>  Loading "installonlyn" plugin
>  Setting up repositories
>  Reading repository metadata in from local files
>  Excluding Packages from Fedora Core 6 - x86_64 - Updates
>  Finished
>  Installed Packages
>  libX11-devel.i386                        1.0.3-6.fc6            installed
>  Available Packages
>  libX11-devel.x86_64                      1.0.3-7.fc6            updates
>  libX11-devel.i386                        1.0.3-7.fc6            updates
>  [root@apollo ~]# rpm -e libX11-devel
>  error: Failed dependencies:
>          libX11-devel is needed by (installed) libXpm-devel-3.5.5-3.x86_64
>          libX11-devel is needed by (installed) 
>  libXt-devel-1.0.2-3.1.fc6.x86_64
>          libX11-devel is needed by (installed) libXmu-devel-1.0.2-5.x86_64
>          libX11-devel is needed by (installed) 
>  libXext-devel-1.0.1-2.1.x86_64
>          libX11-devel is needed by (installed) 
>  mesa-libGL-devel-6.5.1-9.fc6.x86_64
>          libX11-devel is needed by (installed) libXpm-devel-3.5.5-3.i386
>          libX11-devel is needed by (installed) 
>  libXt-devel-1.0.2-3.1.fc6.i386
>          libX11-devel is needed by (installed) libXext-devel-1.0.1-2.1.i386
>  
>  
>  Should the libXpm-devel-3.5.5-3.x86_64 requirement for "libX11-devel" be 
>  satisfied by libX11-devel.i386?  The needed libraries won't be there for 
>  linking.
>  
>  Can this be done in packaging, or does this need to be done in rpm?
>   
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