Re: How do I generate noarch/i386 from one .src.rpm

[Jeff Johnson <n3npq jbj gmail com>]

On Apr 28, 2006, at 3:08 PM, Dimi Paun wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> I have a basic foo-1.0.src.rpm, and I need to be able to generate
> a bunch of noarch packages (Java stuff), and one .i386.rpm for some
> native support libs.
>
> I use BuildArch: noarch, but this results in _all_ subpackages
> to be noarch, I can't force one of them to be i386 :(
>
> Question is, can this be done cleanly?

All depends on what you mean by "cleanly". You -- and you alone --  
know that.

Meanwhile, rpm has only a single build, there ain't no such thing as  
a sub-package build.

One statically valued arch per build, please, is/was a perfectly  
sensible design rule.

You can of course hack up your foo.spec file to do
    %ifarch noarch
     <recipe for building a noarch package>
    %else
    <recipe for building the rest>
    %endif
and then invoke
     rpmbuild -ba --target=i386,noarch
to generate both noarch and non-noarch packages from a single foo.spec.

Just as easy to split into 2 packages imho.

73 de Jeff