what makes a package get i386 on x86_64?

[Matthew Miller]

On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 10:26:09PM -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
> > How hard is it to get a program added to the blacklist? Festival probably
> > should be. And then I should do:
> > %ifarch x86_64
> > Obsoletes: festival.i386 < 1.96
> > %endif
> First, I don't think you can reference arch like that in a spec.

My understanding is that you can, as of 4.4.1.

> Secondly, why don't you split out the two libs into a festival-libs package, 
> that is required by festival?  festival-devel will pick up the library 
> requires out of the -libs package, the libs package will have a generic 
> requires on festival, not an arch specific one.  This will leave 
> festival-devel and festival-libs as multiarch, while festival itself is not.  
> This is the solution that many other packages use.

Hmmmm. Y'know, actually, I've already done that in the updated package. Well
then. That's less annoying. :)

But, I think I'll still need the above incantation to make upgrades work
cleanly, right? Because otherwise, there'll be no upgrade target for the
previous festival.i386 package on x86_64 systems. Or am I not thinking
straight? It's been a long day.

On another front, it turns out that there's a "libFestival.a" which hasn't
been packaged for several years which would really need to be included for
the devel package to be useful _at all_. Still thinking about what to do
about that. :)

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