[64bit] Some packaging problems

[Ken Brown]

On 7/17/2013 4:30 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Jul 16 17:25, Ken Brown wrote:
>> I noticed that a default x86_64 install brings in a lot more
>> packages than a default x86 install.  I found three problems that
>> explain at least some of this.
>>
>> 1. The x86_64 distro has both libexpat1-devel and libexpat-devel,
>> with the files of the latter being a subset of those of the former.
>> In addition, libexpat1-devel is missing a setup.hint, so it is put
>> into the Misc category and installed by default.  BTW, there are
>> packages depending on both of these in the distro, so there will be
>> other changes needed after one of them is removed.
>
> For all I can tell, libexpat-devel seems to be the old version,
> libexpat1-devel the new one.  We should probably manually fix the deps
> in the various hint files to require libexpat1-devel and remove the
> libexpat-devel package.  Yaakov?
>
>> 2. gdb has the wrong setup.hint; it's the same as the setup.hint for
>> rebase.  In particular, this puts it into the Base category.
>
> Thanks, I fixed the setup.hint manually and I'm just building a new gdb
> package with the fixed cygport file.
>
>> 3. The dependencies man ==> groff ==> perl bring perl into a default
>> install.
>
> Hmm, is that bad?  OTOH, the 32 bit groff only requires some default
> libs, not bash, sed, and perl.  Why's that?

I just looked more carefully and saw that the groff installation (both 
32 bit and 64 bit) contains some perl scripts.  So the dependence on 
perl is correct and should also be there in the 32-bit distro.

Ken