"multiarch conflicts in ..." bugs
Bill Nottingham
notting at redhat.com
Tue Oct 23 16:47:15 UTC 2007
Richard W.M. Jones (rjones at redhat.com) said:
>> The ocamlrun scripts also look like binary (arch dependent?) stuff
>> so it is a logical that there is conflict. It certainly requires
>> something to be done at the rpm level, but I am far from being an expert
>> on those issues.
>
> The files which begin with #!/usr/bin/ocamlrun are bytecode files. Even
> though it's called "bytecode" it isn't portable between architectures. It's
> not like Java bytecode. So consider these to be like binaries too.
rpm only handles resolving conflicts between 32 and 64-bit ELF files - anything
else is displayed to the user as a conflict. These bytecode files would
fall into that category.
Bill
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