[Repost] What is "Error: Protected multilib versions"

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Thu, Apr 05, 2012 at 11:34:29PM +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> John Reiser wrote:
> > Or, some packager forgot to use %{?_isa} when specifying package
> > dependencies which are [or become] architecture-dependent.  This is a
> > common and systematic error which causes much grief.  None of the tools
> > check for it, which is another bug^W"opportunity for enhancement".
> 
> %{?_isa} wouldn't really fix this. It'd just change the error from 
> "protected multilib versions" to "unresolvable dependencies". The real issue 
> is that the repository contains packages with broken dependencies, and 
> there's no magic bullet to fix that in yum or in the packaging. There is, 
> however, talk about enforcing the AutoQA dependency checks on the Bodhi end, 
> which should fix that problem in most cases.

Well it could, if we were smarter about the order in which files on
the mirrors got updated.

Rich.

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