rawhide vs. protected multilib versions

Adam Jackson ajax at redhat.com
Thu Apr 5 14:52:08 UTC 2012


On Thu, 2012-04-05 at 16:13 +0200, Jim Meyering wrote:

> Thanks.
> Can anyone explain why appending that %{?_isa} notation is necessary?
> Shouldn't dependency-tracking tools already know that libgomp is
> an arch-dependent binary, and that of course if gcc.x86_64 is depending
> on libgomp, it really wants the x86_64 version and not the i686 one,
> at least by default?

So, at least on my F17 machine, gcc looks like this:

black-lotus:~% rpm -q --requires gcc | grep gomp
libgomp = 4.7.0-1.fc17
libgomp.so.1()(64bit)  

To me that looks like enough information that yum should be able to
figure it out without explicit handholding.  I'd really call this a yum
bug.

- ajax
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