Ah crap, I submitted this as "documentation" and not a bug. Will reopen appropriately.
On Nov 1, 2011, at 5:16 PM, Brian Bockelman wrote:
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> Summary/Question: Xrootd 3.1.0 RPMs do not play well with RHEL
> multiarch policies
> Project: XROOTD
> Submitted by: bbockelm
> Submitted on: 2011-11-01 22:16
> Category: None
> Importance: 3 - Normal
> Status: Draft
> Privacy: Public
> Assigned to: None
> Open/Closed: Open
> Discussion Lock: Any
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> Details:
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> Hi,
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> The current RPMs do not play well RHEL's multiarch / multilib policies. For
> a multiarch repo, a 32-bit RPM is placed in the 64-bit repository if it has a
> .so.X file in /usr/lib or /usr/lib64.
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> Because xrootd-server and xrootd-client have shared libraries in /usr/lib,
> they get marked as multiarch, and will result in the 32-bit libraries in the
> 64-bit repo when one uses RHEL tools to manage the repository (such as Koji).
> Hence, "yum install xrootd-client" will result in both 32-bit and 64-bit
> xrootd-client being attempted.
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> This is an issue because, for RHEL proper, the 32-bit libperl.so *isn't*
> multiarch. Hence, "yum install xrootd-client" will likely fail due to the
> missing perl dep.
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> Brian
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