Wine 64-bit in Fedora ...

Damjan Jovanovic damjan.jov at gmail.com
Tue Nov 10 05:58:48 CST 2009


On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 1:48 PM, Uwe Bonnes
<bon at elektron.ikp.physik.tu-darmstadt.de> wrote:
>>>>>> "Michael" == Michael Stefaniuc <mstefani at redhat.com> writes:
>
>    Michael> Fedora includes now a 64-bit Wine package (at least in F11)
>    Michael> which of course breaks existing Wine setups. "yum install wine"
>    Michael> will install the 64-bit version... Looks like we had our
>    Michael> WineConf too late for this.
>
>    Michael> I have opened
>    Michael> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=533988 for this
>    Michael> problem.
>
>    Michael> The quick fix is to just remove the wine*.x86_64 rpms and
>    Michael> install the wine*.i586 instead.
>
> Did nobody of the packages test what they did?

No surprise there. At one point some distributions packaged wineserver
as an /etc/init.d service, because it sounds like a system-wide
server...

Autopackage had the right idea: the developers of a project should do
the packaging.

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Damjan



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