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

[Tom Lane]

Laurent Rineau <laurent.rineau__fedora at normalesup.org> writes:
> On Friday 06 March 2009 17:41:34 James Antill wrote:
>> ...the "majority" of cases where it's a problem are things that have
>> deps. on *-devel pkgs. Esp. if you have pkgA-devel requires pkgB-devel,
>> usually the only way to do that is via. an explicit requires on
>> pkgB-devel%{_isa}.

> Is that explained somewhere in the packaging guidelines? I have made the error 
> several time. Actually, I did not know %{_isa} before reading the current 
> thread.

If true, this is completely horrid --- this means every single package I
own is broken, and probably 75% of everything else is too.  Can't we get
this fixed in RPM, rather than having to kluge it in the specfiles?

			regards, tom lane