On Thursday, 18 January 2018 at 22:50, Igor Gnatenko wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Does anybody know why we are still using %{?_isa} thing?
>
> DNF/libsolv forcefully install 64bit package for any 32bit package in
> transaction. So it is not possible to get 32bit package without 64bit
> counterpart.
Huh? You can't be serious. I've been keeping a 32bit-only set of wine
packages on my machine for quite some time and I'd be quite annoyed
if I suddenly had to install all corresponding 64bit ones, too.
When did you implement this change and for which Fedora release?
Could you point to its announcement?
> So then what's the reason of using %{?_isa}? Just some old cruft from yum era?
> Can we drop it? Thoughts?
The reason is to ensure 64bit subpackages dependency on main package
won't be satisfied by a 32bit counterpart and vice-versa. This has
always been the case.
Regards,
Dominik
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