[Mageia-dev] qtwebkit libification problem

Thu Dec 22 10:21:40 CET 2011

Den 22:26 18. desember 2011 skrev Colin Guthrie
+<mageia at colin.guthr.ie> følgende:
+> [colin at jimmy ~]$ rpm -qf /usr/lib/qt4/imports/QtWebKit/libqmlwebkitplugin.so
+> lib64qtwebkit2.2_4-2.2.0-1.mga2
+> libqtwebkit2.2_4-2.2.0-1.mga2
+>
+> Strangely RPM let me install both arches even tho' the file is different :s
+This is likely due to coloring, if you install packages with the same
+filename which has
+different colors (ie. ia32 & x86_64), RPM will allow the x86_64
+version to be installed
+over the other.
+It's a cheap way to get around "proper" multilib packaging that's
+enabled by default in
+RPM (you've probably wondered earlier about Fedora's take on multilib
+with the lack of same
+strict packaging policies that we enforce..), but that's been disabled
+for RPM in Mandriva for
+ages.
+It's a mechanism I lack any real insight on, and I don't even remember
+where in the RPM code
+this change was made, much less so what particular patch being
+responsible for it, only
+reference I can recall is some brief documentation at rpm5.org
+(dont-filter-install-file-conflicts):
+http://rpm5.org/cvs/fileview?f=rpm/VENDOR
+>
+> Not quite sure why. The first run didn't and then the second somehow
+> worked without me doing anything to force it.
+I'm merely making wild guesses, it might be totally unrelated to
+coloring, but if it's related in
+any way, then the relevant patch has probably accidentally been
+dropped, or there might've
+been some upstream changes, likely requiring a new patch to be (re)done..
+
+My 2 cents at least.. :)
+
+--
+Regards,
+Per Øyvind
+