What decides that a package is multilib?
Rex Dieter
rdieter at math.unl.edu
Mon Jun 29 14:10:16 UTC 2009
Mary Ellen Foster wrote:
> Someone has just filed a bug that pl.i586 conflicts with pl.x86_64:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=508515
>
> This is indeed true (I just verified it), but what I don't know is why
> pl.i586 is in the multilib repository in the first place. How do
> packages become multilib?
Several general rules apply:
1. all -devel pkgs (and dependencies)
2. any pkg containing shlibs (basically matching %_libdir/lib*.so.*
plus a whole bunch of other exceptions, but hopefully, that gives the
general idea.
-- Rex
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