On 15/07/2019 15:56, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote:
On Mon, Jul 15, 2019 at 11:52:50AM +0200, Mark Wielaard wrote:
> Could you explain a bit more how this (keeps) working? I think my
> mental model of how Fedora repositories work in the case of multilib
> devel packages is a bit flawed. At first I assumed that this suggestion
> would kill that. Because I was under the impression that it worked by
> having the i386 repository be part of the x86_64 package repository. So
> removing the i686 repositories would mean removing all 32bit packages
> from x86_64. But from your explanation above it seems that is not how
> it works. So if there are no i686 repositories, then where/how do the
> 32bit multilib packages come from?
>
> I think I am mixing up buildroots, koji targets, repositories in my
> mind.
Let me second that request. It would be great if somebody could
summarize the steps that lead to 32bit packages being installable on
amd64 machines. I know how the beginning (compilation in the
appropriate chroot), and the end (dnf install foo.i686), but the
middle is hazy.
It definitely doesn't work as Mark thinks because only a subset
of the i686 packages are present in the x86_64 repository.
I've never really been sure how it decides what packages to
include but certainly the idea here that every 32 bit package
that you might need on a 64 bit system is present is false
because I actually have a list of additional packages that
get copied over in my local mirror ;-)
Tom
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