Wine 64-bit in Fedora ...

[Michael Stefaniuc]

Fedora includes now a 64-bit Wine package (at least in F11) which of 
course breaks existing Wine setups. "yum install wine" will install the 
64-bit version... Looks like we had our WineConf too late for this.

I have opened https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=533988 for 
this problem.

The quick fix is to just remove the wine*.x86_64 rpms and install the 
wine*.i586 instead.

bye
    michael

[Austin English]

On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 5:54 PM, Michael Stefaniuc  wrote:
> Fedora includes now a 64-bit Wine package (at least in F11) which of course
> breaks existing Wine setups. "yum install wine" will install the 64-bit
> version... Looks like we had our WineConf too late for this.
>
> I have opened https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=533988 for this
> problem.
>
> The quick fix is to just remove the wine*.x86_64 rpms and install the
> wine*.i586 instead.

Actually, Roderick and I noticed this on IRC, with a user who couldn't
get wine to run more than a couple times on a single prefix.

[Michael Stefaniuc]

Austin English wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 5:54 PM, Michael Stefaniuc  wrote:
> > Fedora includes now a 64-bit Wine package (at least in F11) which of course
> > breaks existing Wine setups. "yum install wine" will install the 64-bit
> > version... Looks like we had our WineConf too late for this.
> >
> > I have opened https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=533988 for this
> > problem.
> >
> > The quick fix is to just remove the wine*.x86_64 rpms and install the
> > wine*.i586 instead.
>
> Actually, Roderick and I noticed this on IRC, with a user who couldn't
> get wine to run more than a couple times on a single prefix.

Oh, I didn't claim that I found the problem. I have seen arethusa on
#winehq helping users get rid of Wine in the 64-bit flavor from Fedora.
I have just verified that "yum install wine" will indeed give a 64-bit
Wine, checked the (rpm) spec file and opened a bug in the Fedora bugzilla.

Thanks for helping those users.

bye
    michael

[Uwe Bonnes]

> > > > > "Michael" == Michael Stefaniuc  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?

[Damjan Jovanovic]

On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 1:48 PM, Uwe Bonnes
 wrote:
> > > > > > "Michael" == Michael Stefaniuc  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

[Michael Stefaniuc]

Uwe Bonnes wrote:
> > > > > > "Michael" == Michael Stefaniuc  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?

It is easy to miss as it requires:
- Fresh install of Wine (via PackageKit or yum install) and
- Old 32-bit WINEPREFIX.

An update of Wine will pull the packages from the same arch aka i586 and
thus the problem won't be visible for the people that just update their
packages. That explains the limited outcry considering the impact of the
problem.

bye
    michael

[Ben Klein]

2009/11/10 Michael Stefaniuc :
> Uwe Bonnes wrote:
> > Did nobody of the packages test what they did?
>
> It is easy to miss as it requires:
> - Fresh install of Wine (via PackageKit or yum install) and
> - Old 32-bit WINEPREFIX.

Except that it's obvious that the packagers are not people who USE
wine, or they would notice their ia32 Windows apps suddenly not
running.