[ATrpms-users] 32-bit NVidia libs in 64-bit atrpms

[Axel Thimm]

On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 11:43:43PM -0800, Fedor Pikus wrote:
> A recent upgrade of my FC6 64-bit box broke a lot of games: I could
> not play Doom3 and most of Cedega games like KOTOR, they would all
> crash. After some searching I eventually tracked the problem to NVidia
> libraries: I had only the 64-bit RPM installed, and the games need
> 32-bit one. RPMs nvidia-graphics9746-libs-1.0_9746-85.fc6.at.x86_64
> and nvidia-graphics9746-libs-1.0_9746-85.fc6.at.i386 coexist fine, so
> there is no reason not to have both, but the 32-bit version is
> available only in the 32-bit version of atrpms.
> 
> Now, in some of the repositories, like Fedora base and updates, some
> 32-bit libs are included in the 64-bit distribution. Not so in this
> case with atrpms.

Yes, that's a bug in the regex that selects the compatibility packages
(was "-libs-", should had been "-libs" or "-libs$")

> Is the recommended mode of operation to have both atrpms64 and
> atrpms32 configured?

No, i386 packages should be tagged as compatibility packages where
needed and placed into the x86_64 repo as well. You'll find many i386
packages in the x86_64 repo. They are all hand selected by using
per-package regex's.

> If not, is it possible to add 32-bit Nvidia libs to atrpms64?

Yes, in theory it was already done some time ago [1], but was blocked
by the above bug. Fixed and the repo is currently being rebuilt, I
think FC6/x86_64 is already through.

Thanks for noting this!

[1] http://bugzilla.atrpms.net/show_bug.cgi?id=619
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Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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