Bug 799367

Summary: yast attempts to install a handful of 32bit packages automatically
Product: [openSUSE] openSUSE Tumbleweed Reporter: Dimitar Pashov <d.pashov>
Component: YaST2Assignee: Stephan Kulow <coolo>
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX QA Contact: Jiri Srain <jsrain>
Severity: Minor    
Priority: P5 - None CC: alinm.elena, pgajdos, whdu
Version: 13.1 Beta 1   
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Hardware: x86-64   
OS: Other   
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Description Dimitar Pashov 2013-01-18 19:41:07 UTC 
User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:16.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/16.0

Yast from a kde4 factory livecd installation autoselects plenty of extra packages on first run. A significant number of these are -32bit basic system packages like pam-32bit, systemd-32bit, glibc-32bit etc.. I found that almost all of them can be deselected by manually unclicking libdb-32bit. The only ones left are nss-mdns-32bit and linux32.

Installation is not strictly necessary to observe this. Live running system is enough.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Boot a factory live usb or cd
2. Launch 'Install/Remove Software'
3. Note the -32bit packages in the 'Installation Summary' tab.
Actual Results:  
You see lots of autoselected packages with plenty of -32bit between them

Expected Results:  
I would have expected not to see any 32bit packages on x86-64 system unless there is particular dependency which does not seem to exist in this case.

I have noticed this a few weeks ago and it persists in Beta1.
Comment 1 Dimitar Pashov 2013-01-18 20:01:58 UTC 
By libdb-32bit I actually meant libdb-4_8-32bit.
Comment 2 Alin M Elena 2013-01-20 11:13:50 UTC 
it may be related with this...
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=354164

I would still like a nice clean 64bit install by default... 

Alin
Comment 3 Thomas Göttlicher 2013-03-01 11:29:47 UTC 
This bug is about picked packages.
Comment 4 Stephan Kulow 2013-03-01 12:18:58 UTC 
grub is 32bit and we can't leave out grub2 from live cd because people just love choice in bootloaders ;(

But as you have one 32bit library installed, pam pulls in the rest ;(
Comment 5 Dimitar Pashov 2013-03-02 22:00:29 UTC 
Since grub2 has 32 and 64 bit versions can we then leave out grub (v0.97) on 64bit machines? I think the default is grub2 anyway.

Maybe offer v0.97 as option on 32bit ones for the people who love the choice of having it?
Comment 6 Petr Gajdos 2015-03-10 07:06:13 UTC 
I guess this is something Standa can't fix, is it?
Please reassign to correct person.
Comment 7 Stephan Kulow 2017-05-24 18:02:58 UTC 
whatever problem there was/is, no one really cares. So let's close this