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Re: "multiarch conflicts in ..." bugs
- From: Bill Nottingham <notting redhat com>
- To: Development discussions related to Fedora <fedora-devel-list redhat com>
- Cc: Patrice Dumas <pertusus free fr>
- Subject: Re: "multiarch conflicts in ..." bugs
- Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 12:47:15 -0400
Richard W.M. Jones (rjones redhat com) said:
>> The ocamlrun scripts also look like binary (arch dependent?) stuff
>> so it is a logical that there is conflict. It certainly requires
>> something to be done at the rpm level, but I am far from being an expert
>> on those issues.
>
> The files which begin with #!/usr/bin/ocamlrun are bytecode files. Even
> though it's called "bytecode" it isn't portable between architectures. It's
> not like Java bytecode. So consider these to be like binaries too.
rpm only handles resolving conflicts between 32 and 64-bit ELF files - anything
else is displayed to the user as a conflict. These bytecode files would
fall into that category.
Bill
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