seth vidal wrote:
On Mon, 2008-09-22 at 11:33 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> While playing with custom repos I noticed that libgcj-devel requires a
> file from zlib-devel that isn't explicitly provided. In a mixed x86_86 / i386
> environmentment this requires looking at the file lists to see that
> libgcj-devel-4.3.2-4.i386 needs zlib-1.2.3-18.fc9.i386 and that
> zlib-1.2.3-18.fc9.x86_64 isn't good enough.
>
> I am not sure if this is actually a bug though and if so, which package
> is at fault. I was hoping to get some guidance here on whether or not
> this is something I should bugzilla.
I think that file dep is explicit - b/c libgcj-devel-4.3.2-4.i386 needs
the i386 version of that package - not the x86_64.
do you know what is the technical reason for this dependency ? Exotic
build system ?