RHEL-6 64 bits doesn't provides php-devel 32bits. So, a php extension which provides some devel stuff should not be consider as a multilib candidate. Ex: php-pecl-msgpack. => php-pecl-msgpack-devel-0.5.5-4.el6.i686 requires php-devel(x86_32)
Any news ? (there is more and more php*devel in EPEL)
Current list (yum --disablerepo=* --enablerepo=epel list php\* | grep i686) php-pecl-apcu.i686 4.0.4-1.el6 epel php-pecl-apcu-devel.i686 4.0.4-1.el6 epel php-pecl-cairo.i686 0.3.2-2.el6 epel php-pecl-cairo-devel.i686 0.3.2-2.el6 epel php-pecl-http.i686 2.0.7-1.el6 epel php-pecl-http-devel.i686 2.0.7-1.el6 epel php-pecl-http1.i686 1.7.6-4.el6 epel php-pecl-http1-devel.i686 1.7.6-4.el6 epel php-pecl-igbinary.i686 1.1.1-3.el6 epel php-pecl-igbinary-devel.i686 1.1.1-3.el6 epel php-pecl-judy.i686 1.0.2-2.el6 epel php-pecl-judy-devel.i686 1.0.2-2.el6 epel php-pecl-krb5.i686 1.0.0-2.el6 epel php-pecl-krb5-devel.i686 1.0.0-2.el6 epel php-pecl-msgpack.i686 0.5.5-4.el6 epel php-pecl-msgpack-devel.i686 0.5.5-4.el6 epel php-pecl-propro.i686 1.0.0-1.el6 epel php-pecl-propro-devel.i686 1.0.0-1.el6 epel php-pecl-raphf.i686 1.0.4-1.el6.1 epel php-pecl-raphf-devel.i686 1.0.4-1.el6.1 epel
For context PHP is globally not compatible with multilib. php-devel provides (and requires) lot of binary commands (such as php, phpize, php-config, ...) which are need during build of PHP extension.
Patch sent: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/rel-eng/2014-September/018425.html
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