Re: RPM roadmapping

[Panu Matilainen <pmatilai redhat com>]

On Thu, 2 Aug 2007, dragoran wrote:

> Panu Matilainen wrote:
> > On Thu, 2 Aug 2007, dragoran wrote:
> >
> > > Panu Matilainen wrote:
> > > > On Fri, 27 Jul 2007, dragoran wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Panu Matilainen wrote:
> > > > > > Not everybody is on rpm-maint list and we'd like to hear the wishes of 
> > > > > > (Fedora) developers/packagers too. So: what have you always wanted to 
> > > > > > do with rpm, but wasn't able to? Or the other way around: what you 
> > > > > > always wished rpm would do for you? What always annoyed you out of your 
> > > > > > mind? 
> > > > >
> > > > > arch requires and provides ... to end the endless multilib discussions 
> > > > > ;)
> > > > > should be automatic until the packager say Requires: foo.arch
> > > >
> > > > I wish it was that simple...
> > > >
> > > > Sure, being able to say "Requires: foo.arch = version-release" would help 
> > > > in many cases, but it does not *solve* the multilib problems.
> > > >
> > > > A big offender here is the x86 architecture with i386, i486 ... etc 
> > > > subarchitectures. While most packages are i386 there, the assumed
> > > what about being able to say foo.i?86
> >
> > What about foo.athlon which is also a 32bit arch?
> >
> > And don't suggest "Requires: foo.i?86 || foo.athlon",
> this is just ugly so no.
> > because then you'd have monsters like this in each and every spec:
> >
> > %ifarch %{ix86}
> > Requires: foo.i?86 || foo.athlon
> > %fi
> > %ifarch x86_64
> > Requires: foo.x86_64
> > %fi
> > ...
> >
> > The exact %{arch} is not the point at all here.
> ok thats indeed the wrong way to solve it.
> what about forgot about the arch names and say foo.64bit or foo.32bit ?

Well that's more or less what I was suggesting :)

Only you can't have Requires: foo.64bit etc hardcoded in the spec for the 
same reason as above: otherwise you'd have ugly arch conditionals all over 
the specs. It must be something that's automatically expanded to correct 
value at build time.

	- Panu -