repoclosure, multilib, and gift pkg

Rex Dieter rdieter at math.unl.edu
Fri Nov 10 14:34:20 UTC 2006


Fedora Extras repoclosure wrote:

>     rdieter AT math.unl.edu
>         gift - 0.11.8.1-6.fc7.i386    (12 days)
...
> Broken packages in fedora-extras-development-x86_64:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>     gift-0.11.8.1-6.fc7.i386  requires  libmagic.so.1

This is multilib at work methinks.  What to do about it?

plan a:
* split gift shlibs and giftd daemon (which links against libmagic) into
separate pkgs.
CON: gift-using apps no longer (automatically) pull-in giftd as a
dependency.  WORKAROUND: add Requires: gift-daemon (or whatever new pkg
name is) to said apps.

plan b:
* hmm... can't think of a plan b.  Suggestions?

-- Rex





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