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

[Steve Grubb]

On Friday 06 March 2009 04:44:00 am 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?

This sounds like something is wrong in the build system. Where a package is 
built on a multi-lib platform, isn't there an explicit "--target x86_64" ? If 
so, rpm has the hint needed to resolve this all successfully. If rpm simply 
chose only packages from the arch that is being built, there wouldn't be a 
problem. Its that simple.

-Steve