on IA64, rpm installs i386 static libraries to /usr/lib

[Jeff Johnson]

tracker

[Jan (jan-redhat-bugs)]

Description of problem:
I have static libraries in net-snmp-devel.i386 package. When I install it on IA64 machine, they are installed to /usr/lib directory instead of /emul/ia32-linux/.

This causes multilib conflicts between net-snmp-devel.ia64 and net-snmp-devel.i386.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
rpm-4.4.2.3-18.el5

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. rpm -i net-snmp-devel.ia64*
2. rpm -i net-snmp-devel.i386*

Actual results:
 file /usr/lib/libnetsnmp.a from install of net-snmp-devel-5.3.2.2-7.el5.i386 conflicts with file from package net-snmp-devel-5.3.2.2-7.el5.ia64
 file /usr/lib/libnetsnmpagent.a from install of net-snmp-devel-5.3.2.2-7.el5.i386 conflicts with file from package net-snmp-devel-5.3.2.2-7.el5.ia64
 file /usr/lib/libnetsnmphelpers.a from install of net-snmp-devel-5.3.2.2-7.el5.i386 conflicts with file from package net-snmp-devel-5.3.2.2-7.el5.ia64
 file /usr/lib/libnetsnmpmibs.a from install of net-snmp-devel-5.3.2.2-7.el5.i386 conflicts with file from package net-snmp-devel-5.3.2.2-7.el5.ia64
 file /usr/lib/libnetsnmptrapd.a from install of net-snmp-devel-5.3.2.2-7.el5.i386 conflicts with file from package net-snmp-devel-5.3.2.2-7.el5.ia64
 file /usr/lib/libsnmp.a from install of net-snmp-devel-5.3.2.2-7.el5.i386 conflicts with file from package net-snmp-devel-5.3.2.2-7.el5.ia64

(there are also other errors, but on net-snmp side, traced as bug #521820)

Expected results:
net-snmp-devel.i386 installed

Additional info:
There is something bad in coloring of the static libraries. RPM does not recognize them as worth relocating to /emul. It's quite similar to bug #491349, see comment #12 and later for some insights, maybe they apply to RHEL5 too.

[Florian (florian-redhat-bugs)]

As there is no colored file in the package at all there is nothing we can really do from the rpm side. Sorry.