what makes a package get i386 on x86_64?

Matthew Miller mattdm at mattdm.org
Fri Mar 16 02:55:36 UTC 2007


On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 10:48:33PM -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
> > My understanding is that you can, as of 4.4.1.
> Hrm, I know you can on the cli, rpm -q foo.i386 rpm -e bar.x86_64, but you 
> couldn't do arch specific things in the spec, like BuildRequires glibc.i386 
> or some such.

The changes file says "use package color as Obsoletes: color", which I guess
may mean that obsoletes now _only_ affect their own arch, not all archs. I
suppose I'll test and find out.

Otherwise, what's the solution?

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