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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: > > URL: > <http://savannah.cern.ch/cookbook/?366> > > 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 > > _______________________________________________________ > > Details: > > Hi, > > 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. > > 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. > > 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. > > Brian > > > > > _______________________________________________________ > > Reply to this item at: > > <http://savannah.cern.ch/cookbook/?366> > > _______________________________________________ > Message sent via/by LCG Savannah > http://savannah.cern.ch/