multilib fun - devel packages

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Thu, 2005-12-08 at 19:12 -0500, seth vidal wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-12-08 at 16:23 -0700, Orion Poplawski wrote:
> > Bill Nottingham wrote:
> > > One of the things we've been looking at is improving support for
> > > multilib/multiarch environments. The next big step is handling
> > > devel packages so they can be installed in a multilib fashion.
> > > 
> > > However, many devel packages have conflicts in their header
> > > and similar files.
> > > 
> > 
> > Can a similar report be generated for Extras?
> > 
> 
> we don't ship any multilib pkgs in extras at all.

??? These issues affect Extras in the same way as they affect Core.
Very oversimplified, Bill's remark boils down to:

"Can xxx-devel-V-R.i386.rpm and xxx-devel-V-R.x86_64.rpm be installed
simultaneously and in parallel without conflicts or functional defects?"


Also, if thinking a bit further on this case, it's easy to identify more
classes of breakages than Bill mentioned.

Just to mention a few:
* arch-depended package dependencies.
* arch-depended runtime features.
* rpm scriptlets.

> and if it is possible hopefully we can keep it that way! :)

Well, if FC and FE were shipping real multilib'ed packages (i.e.
packages containing files for several archs of a basearch at once), this
thread would not exist, because then, all packages which are not
ready/designed for multilibs could not be shipped.

Ralf