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 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 251 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/attachments/20080702/633355f4/attachment-0006.sig>