apitrace-libs.i686 missing in x86_64 repos

Sandro Mani manisandro at gmail.com
Fri Sep 25 21:46:46 UTC 2015



On 25.09.2015 22:44, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Sep 2015 19:40:16 +0200, Sandro Mani wrote:
>
>>>> You could ask releng to add apitrace-libs to the multilib whitelist:
>>>>
>>>>       https://pagure.io/mash/new_issue
>>>>
>>>> However, I have to wonder, why wouldn't the library have a -devel
>>>> package? Is there no way to link against that library?
>>> Looks like a package mistake:
>>>
>>>     http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/apitrace.git/plain/apitrace.spec
>>>
>>> The contents of apitrace-libs are files below %{_libdir}/%{name}/ which
>>> seem to be plugin libraries:
>>>
>>>     http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/rpminfo?rpmID=6776085
>>>     
>>>       /usr/lib64/apitrace/
>>> 	/usr/lib64/apitrace/scripts/*.py
>>>       /usr/lib64/apitrace/wrappers/*.so
>>> 	
>>> Plus, there's a circular dependency between apitrace <-> apitrace-libs,
>>> so splitting off the subpackage is kind of strange. Nothing else depends
>>> on the apitrace-libs package.
>> The background of the split is #1068620 - installing the 32bit wrapper
>> libraries allowes you to trace 32bit apps on 64bit systems.
> Well, then adding the i686 build to the mash x86_64 multilib compose whitelist
> cannot be avoided -- as it's needed to really fix #1068620.
Okay thanks - https://pagure.io/mash/issue/4.


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