Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 202942
Freetype-devel.i386 dependancies
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:11:40 EST
Attempting to delete freetype.i386 while tidying up a box to do x86-64 only testing of something I found that freetype-devel.x86_64 has a dependancy on freetype.i386, which I assume should be on freetype.x86_64. As a result of this much stuff is pinned down by the dependancy and lots of x86-32 bits can't be removed without judicious use of nodeps
AFAIK this isn't a freetype bug but a more general problem, chances are that you don't have the (correct version-release of) freetype.x86_64 installed. This is a strange problem /yum-bug with -devel packages where the Require: %{name} = {version}-%{release} and when you're installing a -devel package and the main package is not available already yum install both the i386 and x86_64 versions.
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I'm not the reported, but I have tried to explain the likely cause as I have seen similar problems sometimes. This isn't a freetype bug however, but rather an rpm shortcoming where versioned requires (nor obsoletes, see the current hal/pam discussion on the list) are supported. I think this should be fixed at the rpm level.
Yeah. As I'm not seeing this specific freetype-devel issue in rawhide, I'm going to mark this specific bug closed; maybe a "rpm should not suck at arch-colored requirements/obsoletes" bug should be filed if one isn't already.