Multilib extras packages need i386 libpython2.4.so on x86_64

[Michael Schwendt]

On Fri, 27 Oct 2006 16:14:26 +0200, Denis Leroy wrote:

> >>>>> Broken packages in fedora-extras-development-x86_64:
> >>>>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> >>>>>     k3d-0.6.3.1-1.fc6.i386  requires  libpython2.4.so.1.0

> >>>> Why is libpython2.4.so.1.0 missing on x86_64 but not i386?
> >>> This is multi-lib enabled Fedora Extras Development.
> >>>
> >>> In addition to Wine (and its dependencies), now i386 -devel packages and
> >>> their dependencies are available in x86_64 Extras, too.
> >>>
> >>> If libpython2.4.so.1.0 i386 (!) is not in Rawhide x86_64, we need to talk
> >>> about it and either start black-listing i386 Extras packages, which we
> >>> don't want to have multi-lib enabled (or fix the sub-packages).
> >>>
> >>> Above are dependencies of:
> >>>
> >>>   csound-devel
> >>>   k3d-devel
> >>>   koffice-devel
> >>>   plplot-devel
> >>>   scribus-devel
> >>>
> >> So, are the above packages in error, or do we need to get i386 
> >> libpython2.4.so into the x86_64 tree?
> > 
> > Very doubtful, because:
> > 
> > $ rpm -q --whatprovides libpython2.4.so.1.0
> > python-2.4.3-18.fc6
> 
> hmm, I'm not sure i fully understand. Are you requesting anything from 
> the packagers ? k3d simply has a BR: python-devel in its main package. 
> Does it need a specific R: python then ?

That won't make available i386 Python in Core on x86_64.

But if you wanted to make k3d-devel multi-compatible, you could split
the huge k3d package into a k3d-sdk (or k3d-libs) package and a main
application package. Then k3d-devel could depend on just k3d-sdk and
would no longer require Python.

$ rpm -qf $(which k3d-config)
k3d-devel-0.6.3.1-1.fc6
$ k3d-config --libs
-L/usr/lib -lk3dsdk -lsigc-2.0   -L/usr/lib -lGL -lpthread -L/usr/lib -lGLU
$ ldd /usr/lib/libk3d*.so.0|grep pyt
$

A similar approach might suffice with other four packages listed above.