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

[Panu Matilainen]

On Fri, 6 Mar 2009, Tom Lane wrote:

> 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.

Yes, and been broken forever.

> Can't we get this fixed in RPM, rather than having to kluge it in the 
> specfiles?

Rpm has no way of knowing if "foo" vs "bar-devel" is something that needs 
matching arch or not, they're just arbitrary package names to it.

We can't very well go hardcoding rules about -devel and -libs and such as 
packaging policies vary wildly, and not all packages follow such rules 
anyway. What might be doable is having a build-time configurable patterns 
for adding %{_isa} automatically. For Fedora, just having *-devel 
dependencies tagged with isa should fix a good percentage (but not 
all) of the cases.

 	- Panu -