With yum, we interpreted the --multilib option on %packages to mean set multilib_policy="all" in the yum.conf used for installation. The default was to have multilib_policy="best". We tried multilib_policy="all" in the dnf configuration used at install time, but that did not work. Installation proceeds and you just get the target arch packages. If I perform the same installation and pass inst.nodnf so the yum backend is used in anaconda, I get a YumRPMTransError when it begins preparing the transaction. It seems the pam_pkcs11 packages for i686 and x86_64 both own /usr/share/doc/pam_pkcs11/pam.d_login.example and /usr/share/doc/pam_pkcs11/pam_pkcs11.html. An error in that package, but I'm curious if dnf hit this and silently ignored it or if it didn't try depsolving multilib packages at all.
Thank you for the report. First of all, it seems you are trying to use an unsupported feature because the "multilib_policy" option is not documented. So, we should document it first. Can you please confirm that it does not work for you even if the value passed to the "multilib_policy" option in the DNF's configuration file is *not* surrounded with quotes? And last but not least, I cannot reproduce it on a fresh Fedora installation. Both pam_pkcs11-0.6.8-3.fc21.i686 and pam_pkcs11-0.6.8-3.fc21.x86_64 are suggested to be installed. Can you please mention the versions of DNF and pam_pkcs11 packages that causes the problem? Ideally, please, try to reproduce it and attach the debug data according to http://dnf.baseurl.org/2013/11/25/reporting-depsolving-bugs/ .
Yeah, looking at this further, things work fine with just changes to dnfpayload.py in anaconda. Completely lacking any multilib handling in that file. dnf by itself works fine by changing dnf.conf. Regarding multilib, you absolutely need to document the functionality and support it. Repos and software in Fedora and RHEL is multilib by nature and we will need installation flexibility on a per-variant basis in future RHEL releases. Likely Fedora too. Moving this to anaconda since the change is there.
This doesn't appear to be working, at least not in the kickstart tests with anaconda. I don't see any 32-bit glibc installed.
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