Reorganization of src.rpm: not arch agnostic

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Fri Mar 17 20:16:56 UTC 2006


Axel Thimm (Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net) said: 
> On Fri, Mar 17, 2006 at 02:07:13PM -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> > Axel Thimm (Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net) said: 
> > > while putting together these src.rpms under one folder was a good
> > > thing, it uncovers an issue with conditional and macro-dependent
> > > BuildRequires, i.e. they become static and reveal the arch in nasty
> > > ways.
> > 
> > Huh? These are the same SRPMS as always; there is no difference to
> > how they are generated with respect to previous releases, only in
> > how the ISOs were generated.
> 
> either the issue wasn't present until now (no arch hardconding in
> BuildRequires before FC5), or nobody noticed.

Almost certainly the latter. The source RPMs shipped have always been
identical across architecture; if you want to process the buildreqs,
use the spec. Or have a package that Provides: anytihng not available
on that arch as a build req.

Bill




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