Bug 442770
| Summary: | Bad versioning in RPM pre-reqs | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Valdis Kletnieks <valdis.kletnieks> |
| Component: | libX11 | Assignee: | Søren Sandmann Pedersen <sandmann> |
| Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
| Severity: | low | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | low | ||
| Version: | 9 | CC: | ffesti, jnovy, kem, peter.hutterer, pmatilai, sandmann, xgl-maint |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | x86_64 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2009-07-14 18:20:29 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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Changing version to '9' as part of upcoming Fedora 9 GA. More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping This is not an libX11 bug but a problem with rpm. If we'd start doing arch-dependent requires for each package and each architecture, the specs would become pretty crazy. Like it or not, but rpm cannot magically know if an arbitrary dependency string "foo" is supposed to be arch dependant or not. You need to tell it to rpm one way or another, there's no way around that.
In Fedora 9, the only option is to use a file dependency on something that varies between archs, typically something in /usr/lib vs /usr/lib64. From F10 onwards you can express the arch dependency by appending %{_isa} to the dependency name, eg in this case
Requires: libxcb-devel%{_isa}
Note that practically every single -devel package in F9 has this issue, hardly worth fixing specifically for libX11.
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Description of problem: While cleaning up un-needed i386 devel packages on an almost-entirely x86_64 box, I hit this: # rpm -e libxcb-devel-1.1-2.fc9.i386 error: Failed dependencies: libxcb-devel is needed by (installed) libX11-devel-1.1.4-1.fc9.x86_64 The x86_64 version should depend on libxcb-devel.x86_64 not a wildcard or generic. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): libX11-devel-1.1.4-1.fc9.x86_64 How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info: