Bug 1182757

$ sudo yum install prison prison.i686 --debuglevel 1

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 Package              Arch          Version                Repository      Size
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Installing:
 prison               i686          1.0-9.fc22             rawhide         21 k
 prison               x86_64        1.0-9.fc22             rawhide         21 k
Installing for dependencies:
 libdmtx              i686          0.7.2-15.fc22          rawhide         70 k
 libdmtx              x86_64        0.7.2-15.fc22          rawhide         69 k
 qrencode-libs        i686          3.4.2-4.fc22           rawhide         56 k

Transaction Summary
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Install  2 Packages (+3 Dependent packages)

Total download size: 236 k
Installed size: 496 k
Is this ok [y/d/N]:

Thanks for the report. This is strange. On libsolv level it works as expected, no other package provides `prison` and `dnf install librepo librepo.i686` works. We will take a look.

Isn't it the expected behavior? "prison" means "install any prison" so if you want to install "any prison" and "prison.i686", you want to install "prison.i686". Otherwise the logic starts to be a bit complicated.

In yum, prison means "prison.x86_64" in an x86_64 system. If DNF decides to treat prison as "any prison", it should be documented as an important difference between Yum and DNF, as it can affect many install scripts. It will even affect some custom .ks files for building Fedora spins/remixes which have packages from multiple archs. For example, I have my own Fedora remix which does include some packages from both x86_64 and i686 archs. My .ks will certainly break if pungi uses DNF instead of yum.

(In reply to Radek Holy from comment #3)
> Isn't it the expected behavior? "prison" means "install any prison" so if
> you want to install "any prison" and "prison.i686", you want to install
> "prison.i686". Otherwise the logic starts to be a bit complicated.
then it shouldn't install 64 bit libraries if we want to install i686

(In reply to Igor Gnatenko from comment #5)
> (In reply to Radek Holy from comment #3)
> > Isn't it the expected behavior? "prison" means "install any prison" so if
> > you want to install "any prison" and "prison.i686", you want to install
> > "prison.i686". Otherwise the logic starts to be a bit complicated.
> then it shouldn't install 64 bit libraries if we want to install i686
Unless the 64-bit version is required too.

This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 22 development cycle.
Changing version to '22'.

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The report from comment 0 is considered as bug in DNF and we will fix it.

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Fedora 22 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2016-07-19. Fedora 22 is
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This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 25 development cycle.
Changing version to '25'.

Hi Igor, The problem cannot be reproduce with dnf-2.4.1-1 and libdnf-0.8.2-1.