[Yum] [PATCH] avoid installing 2 copies of everything multilib

seth vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Wed Aug 24 20:20:14 UTC 2005


On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 16:11 -0400, Sean Dilda wrote:
> seth vidal wrote:
> 
> > I've also never figured out what was so heinous about having both i386
> > and x86_64 of a package installed by default. what's the bad thing that
> > happens? 
> 
> Because sometimes the .i386 and .x86_64 version of the package have file 
> conflicts that rpm won't handle for you.  In this case you get screwed 
> if you try to do the install.
> 
> (Case in point, MPICH auto-generates .h files during build time, and 
> these files contain architecture specific #define's)

That seems like a packaging bug. If the two packages are intended to
coexist on the system then they should not have conflicting files. if
they're not allowed to coexist then they need a Conflicts: for each
other.

-sv





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