Muiltilib for -devel allowed?

[Parag Nemade]

Hi,
   I want to know whether multilib -devel packages are acceptable? This is
related to bug https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=965914#c5

Regards,
Parag.

[Björn Esser]

Am Donnerstag, den 20.06.2013, 11:41 +0530 schrieb Parag N(पराग़):
>  Hi,
>  
>     I want to know whether multilib -devel packages are acceptable?
>  This is related to bug
>  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=965914#c5 
>  
>  
>  Regards,
>  Parag.
>  
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Hi Parag!

Sure multilib -devel packages are allowed, e.g:

yum list glib-devel
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, langpacks, priorities, refresh-packagekit
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
16663 packages excluded due to repository priority protections
Available Packages
glib-devel.i686        1:1.2.10-39.fc19        fedora
glib-devel.x86_64      1:1.2.10-39.fc19        fedora

invoking `yum list *-devel` shows perfectly every -devel-pkg is avail
for multiarch.

Cheers,
  Björn

[Parag Nemade]

Hi,

On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 11:59 AM, Björn Esser <bjoern.esser(a)gmail.com&gt;wrote:

>  Am Donnerstag, den 20.06.2013, 11:41 +0530 schrieb Parag N(पराग़):
>  > Hi,
>  >
>  >    I want to know whether multilib -devel packages are acceptable?
>  > This is related to bug
>  > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=965914#c5
>  >
>  >
>  > Regards,
>  > Parag.
>  >
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>
>  Hi Parag!
>
>  Sure multilib -devel packages are allowed, e.g:
>
>  yum list glib-devel
>  Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, langpacks, priorities, refresh-packagekit
>  Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
>  16663 packages excluded due to repository priority protections
>  Available Packages
>  glib-devel.i686        1:1.2.10-39.fc19        fedora
>  glib-devel.x86_64      1:1.2.10-39.fc19        fedora
>
>  invoking `yum list *-devel` shows perfectly every -devel-pkg is avail
>  for multiarch.
>
>  
Sorry, I was not clear in my initial email. Yes, I know we can install
multilib -devel but the bug given as a reference, fcitx-devel packages are
giving "Transaction check error". I don't think maintainer should still
think to push fcitx package to any fedora stable release with such a error.

Regards,
Parag.

[Michael Schwendt]

On Thu, 20 Jun 2013 08:29:01 +0200, Björn Esser wrote:

>  Am Donnerstag, den 20.06.2013, 11:41 +0530 schrieb Parag N(पराग़):
>  > Hi,
>  > 
>  >    I want to know whether multilib -devel packages are acceptable?
>  > This is related to bug
>  > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=965914#c5 
>  
>  Sure multilib -devel packages are allowed, e.g: 
Not only are they "allowed", they belong to the primary set of packages
that make a repo multiarch. The repo compose tool pulls in compatible
-devel packages, their dependencies and run-time libs it detects:

  https://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/mash/plain/mash/multilib.py

The DevelMultilibMethod at the bottom is what's enabled in the config.

Conflicts between the two -devel packages for different archs ought to be
fixed like other packaging bugs. That hasn't been found extremely
important for early Fedora releases, but later we've worked with tracker
bugs, such as 'multilibdevel':

  packages with multilib -devel conflicts
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/192658

There are tons of tickets about such conflicts.

-- 
Michael Schwendt
Fedora release 19 (Schrödinger’s Cat) - Linux 3.9.5-301.fc19.x86_64
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