James Antill wrote:
On Sun, 2008-06-29 at 23:57 +0200, Ralph Angenendt wrote:
Morning,
we seem to have a packaging problem with httpd-devel.x86_64 and apr-devel.x86_64.
If you install httpd-devel on an x86_64 machine, apr-devel is required by this package.
It then goes on to install apr-devel - but the i386 version.
This is an ongoing problem in yum/rpm/Fedora/etc. where packages want arch deps. but rpm does not yet offer them (very new rpm fills in %{_isa} to solve this problem). Atm. it's not really a packaging problem or a yum problem, although you can work around it by using a file dep. in the package ... or by doing excludes in yum (or telling yum to install apr-devel.x86_64 by hand).
Of course, we don't change the upstream requires "on purpose" so by policy we can't do this :D