updates-testing: multilib broken for days now

[Rex Dieter]

Paul Howarth wrote:

> On 09/07/15 12:39, Miloslav Trmač wrote:
>>> On Wed, 8 Jul 2015 21:30:40 +0200
>>> Reindl Harald <h.reindl at thelounge.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> ...snip...
>>>
>>>>          Protected multilib versions: polkit-0.113-1.fc21.x86_64 !=
>>>> polkit-0.112-7.fc21.1.i686
>>>
>>> This is due to polkit splitting out a polkit-libs package between those
>>> two versions. This makes it only include the polkit-libs package
>>> instead of a polkit.i686.
>>>
>>> You should be able to just remove the old polkit.i686, but I agree it
>>> needs to be handed by the package cleanly for upgrades.
>>
>> Oops.  Is there a way to handle this cleanly at all?  I can’t just do
>> polkit-libs.i686 Obsoletes: polkit.i686, that would break 32-bit-only
>> systems.
> 
> How about:
> 
> Obsoletes: polkit < 0.112-7
> (assuming this is the EVR at which the split was introduced)
> 
> 
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/MultilibTricks#Splitting_libraries_into_separate_packages

Yes, this is the way to do it, putting that Obsoletes in the main pkg (not -
libs as suggested elsewhere in this thread).

-- rex