Re: How are i386 packages selected for x86_64 repos?

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On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 14:58:41 -0500,
  Bruno Wolff III <bruno@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 21:21:48 +0200,
>   Michael Schwendt <mschwendt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Sat, 20 Sep 2008 09:50:58 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> > 
> > You can take a look at the current tool that fills the biarch repos.
> > It's "mash", written in Python, and in the Fedora repo. The basic
> > pkg selection scheme is to add all -devel pkgs and their dependencies,
> > plus packages from a whitelist and minus packages from a blacklist.
> 
> Thanks. Knowing the approach used is helpful. I still want to look at doing
> it based on provides and see what that gives. Having access to a whitelist
> and blacklist if I need to use them will be better than trying to maintain
> my own.

Doing the selection based on provides ended up doubling the number of i386
packages over what normally is provided. Rawhide had 2903 i386 packages
and by checking missing provides I ended up using 5835 packages.
Doing a repoclosure looked pretty good. Most of the errors were real missing
stuff and x86_64 and i386 errors pretty much lined up. The one thing that
did seem to be missing is zlib-devel. libgcj-devel-4.3.2-4.i386 requires
/usr/lib/libz.so, but zlib-devel doesn't provide that explicitly. I am not
sure if that is a packaging error or if things are really supposed to go
looking for files in a package and not just at what is explicitly provided.
For now I'll just pull in the extra packages and see if I run accross any
problems. Minimizing the repo isn't a big concern for me.

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