Bug 442282

Summary:	32-bit nspluginwrapper components are not installed
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Carl Roth <roth>
Component:	nspluginwrapper	Assignee:	Martin Stransky <stransky>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	rawhide	CC:	caillon, dcantrell, wtogami
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Description Carl Roth 2008-04-13 20:07:53 UTC

Description of problem:

In order for nspluginwrapper to work correctly with 32-bit plugins on 64-bit
systems, both the 32- and 64-bit versions of the package need to be installed.

The current default YUM behavior with 64-bit systems (multilib_policy=best) will
never install nspluginwrapper.i386 unless the architecture is spelled out
explicitly.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

yum-3.2.14-2.fc9.noarch
nspluginwrapper-0.9.91.5-26.fc9.x86_64
nspluginwrapper-0.9.91.5-26.fc9.i386

How reproducible:

Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install nspluginwrapper on a 64-bit system; verify that the 32-bit version
did *not* get installed
2. Install a 32-bit plugin such as flash-plugin
3. Note that mozilla-plugin-config does not wrap this plugin
  
Actual results:

32-bit plugins are not wrapped correctly

Expected results:

The 32- and 64-bit versions of nspluginwrapper should unconditionally be
installed on 64-bit systems.

Additional info:

Several hacky workarounds for this problem:

1. manually yum-install 'nspluginwrapper.i386'

This workaround is great if you're using YUM, which understands the 'i386'
suffix; it's not so great for encoding into RPM dependencies.

OR

2. manually install or rpm-require 'npwrapper.so'

This technique works in RPM 'Requires' stanzas too.

Comment 1 Martin Stransky 2008-04-17 12:23:21 UTC

I'm not against to install the nspluginwrapper.i386 by default on x86_64...

Comment 2 Jesse Keating 2008-04-17 13:24:54 UTC

I am, as it drags in 51 (inclusive) other i386 packages to an otherwise i386
free default install.  FESCO already voted on this issue and they will not be
installed by default.

Comment 3 Martin Stransky 2008-04-17 13:31:18 UTC

Well, closing as wontfix then.

Comment 4 Jesse Keating 2008-04-17 13:48:30 UTC

You can add file deps to the nspluginwrapper package so that the 64bit one
always pulls in the 32bit one.  That's safe if we're not installing
nspluginwrapper by default (which we aren't).

Comment 5 Jesse Keating 2008-04-17 13:49:01 UTC

Well, n/m, that might upset the folks who want pluginwrapper but have no desire
to wrap 32bit plugins.