Re: yum-builddep pulling in i386 packages for x86_64 -devel dependencies

[Tom London <selinux gmail com>]

On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 6:41 AM, James Antill <james fedoraproject org> wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-03-06 at 09:55 +0000, Bill Crawford wrote:
>> On Friday 06 March 2009 09:44:00 Bill Crawford wrote:
>> > I just noticed an interesting thing with yum-builddep. There's a dependency
>> > somewhere on audit-libs-devel, and it's trying to pull in audit-libs.i386
>> > instead of .x64_64 ... this then leads to it wanting to download over a
>> > dozen other i386 packages. Any way to get around this? Did I do something
>> > wrong?
>>
>> Never mind, I'd forgotten to enable / disable some repositories (although I'm
>> still ... disturbed ... that i?86 packages can satisfy the dependencies for a
>> x86-64 -devel package :-/).
>
>  Log a bug against audit to use:
>
> BuildRequires: audit-libs-devel%{_isa}
>
> ...which will mean the requires provider must be the same arch. as the
> requesting pkg.
>
> --
> James Antill <james fedoraproject org>

Are you saying that, for example, gnome-panel.x86_64 should change its
requires of gnome-session-xsession to

gnome-session-xsession%{_isa}

????

If so, I'm guessing there are "lots of these".

tom
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Tom London