Re: building a non-source RPM

[rpjday <rpjday mindspring com>]

On Thu, 3 Jan 2002, Jim Knoble wrote:

> Circa 2001-Dec-29 04:27:31 -0500 dixit rpjday:
> 
> Whichever you decide to use, note that, due to limitations in RPM, the
> architecture applies to the entire specfile.  That is, you can't build
> a main package with one architecture (blah-1.0-1.i386.rpm) and a
> subpackage with another one (blah-extras-1.0-1.noarch.rpm).[*]
> 
> ________________
> [*] Actually, that's a lie.  You can, but it's a multi-step process
>     which is too complex to explain here.

  yeah, i was going through the online version of "maximum rpm," the
section on subpackages, until i acknowledged that it was more than i
really needed at the moment.  thanks.

rday

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