[Fedora-packaging] FESCo notes on OCaml guidelines change

Tom "spot" Callaway tcallawa at redhat.com
Fri Mar 14 02:08:16 UTC 2008


On Thu, 2008-03-13 at 19:34 -0500, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:

> Of course, we should still try to address the issue.  Is there
> actually a demonstrable problem here?  What can go wrong without some
> arch-specific dependencies on the main ocaml package?  Can you have
> just the 32-bit ocaml installed on a 64-bit machine and install a
> 64-bit module without rpm/yum complaining about dependency problems or
> pulling in the 64-bit ocaml package?  (No 64-bit machine I can afford
> to screw with at the moment.)

Yes, this is hypothetically possible, see:

[spot at localhost ~]$ rpm -q ocaml-findlib-1.2.1-2.fc9.x86_64 --requires
rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= 4.0-1
rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) <= 3.0.4-1
rpmlib(VersionedDependencies) <= 3.0.3-1
/bin/sh  
libc.so.6()(64bit)  
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.2.5)(64bit)  
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.3)(64bit)  
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.3.4)(64bit)  
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.4)(64bit)  
libdl.so.2()(64bit)  
libdl.so.2(GLIBC_2.2.5)(64bit)  
libm.so.6()(64bit)  
libm.so.6(GLIBC_2.2.5)(64bit)  
ocaml(Array) = aa8e3cd5824f9bb40b93fcd38d0c95b5
ocaml(Big_int) = 992d682669507b99e689b5a2188c0b9a
ocaml(Buffer) = f6cef633ea14963b84b79c4095c63dc3
ocaml(Char) = e98bc9c9e918a84b3c1a5a122d42fac1
ocaml(Consistbl) = 47f9cdffda6ba2de99c8e9f0c0c1b34d
ocaml(Digest) = a5dd2d89492338578de12105e88c803f
ocaml(Env) = 6d0215253b3fde95601c34944cacb607
ocaml(Filename) = 633a1e7f590ff5e95124293dbef3b476
ocaml(Format) = 35fe566f7a37d8991a5c822bd1463949
ocaml(Hashtbl) = 083f2c94b44ff4e0b3220aaea6a783b4
ocaml(Ident) = ba1acc56fc179d27bd55278cbc2abf40
ocaml(Lexing) = b1793496643444d3762dd42bebe2cfe3
ocaml(List) = da1ce9168f0408ff26158af757456948
ocaml(Location) = eed044ad1204a633caad97bdd9048f8c
ocaml(Longident) = 46fb8aad4fb2c12a0f301b02d8139f07
ocaml(Map) = dedde7683d54ae7db1eb97cc868dd047
ocaml(Nat) = 0ea20dd1cc4533fd519b5542a89feb87
ocaml(Num) = cfa2705c9c6d6f5a56b83f91fc630d2a
ocaml(Obj) = 5cfae708052c692ea39d23ed930fd64d
ocaml(Outcometree) = 6674fbd870cb2522aca4d851f3559202
ocaml(Path) = d8bc8e7163bac3a9a0a93f1cb07092d1
ocaml(Pervasives) = 8ba3d1faa24d659525c9025f41fd0c57
ocaml(Primitive) = 43a2770aed8fbcc536ab39d717fe9a7b
ocaml(Printf) = 5dbbf45a03b54e6dbfcf39178d0d6341
ocaml(Ratio) = 7067125cce206dd2bbe93918ba7bdfe9
ocaml(Set) = 7da14e671a035f12386ace3890018ef3
ocaml(Sort) = 089a51dd8ddc078e57acf2f80b7c06f6
ocaml(Stream) = 21a833e12efd34ea0c87d8d9da959809
ocaml(String) = 2c162ab314b2f0a2cfd22d471b2e21ab
ocaml(Sys) = 0da495f5a80f31899139359805318f28
ocaml(Topdirs) = 2d07b01227af22b60aee18498198c35e
ocaml(Toploop) = ead8879d71c4d5137fe5100fdd682a0b
ocaml(Types) = df897aed3fc89c2129322c17067857b8
ocaml(Warnings) = abcb1589615da86f20f475b0ed3bbabc
ocaml(runtime) = 3.10.1

[spot at localhost ~]$ rpm -q ocaml.x86_64 --provides
ocaml(compiler) = 3.10.1
ocaml(Ocamlbuild) = df8d0c74d80342ca6057bad41bde8971
ocaml(Ocamlbuild_executor) = 846552307267a7beccbeafa1f378a030
ocaml(Ocamlbuild_pack) = 70dd242c6e6bb93e89d226308888f9ba
ocaml(Ocamlbuild_plugin) = 14eaca3963ed1f73c1da0680370a802c
ocaml(Ocamlbuild_unix_plugin) = 91f524a8cc2f4e0cd69f3ef83c774116
ocaml = 3.10.1-2.fc9

So, ocaml.i386 would resolve this dependency just as well as
ocaml.x86_64, but I doubt it would work. yum is going to try to resolve
this dependency with the ocaml.x86_64 by default, but if you had somehow
manually installed ocaml.i386 only, it would then install ocaml addons
as x86_64 packages.

~spot




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