[Bug 553706] Review Request: seabios - Open-source legacy BIOS implementation

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--- Comment #6 from Bill Nottingham <notting at redhat.com>  2010-01-08 16:20:00 EDT ---
(In reply to comment #5)
> For the python-devel buildrequires, it is actually needed.  Testing in mock
> showed that it would not build without python-devel.  The compiler test script
> uses it.

Fairly sure that just requires python, not python-devel?

> It does not make sense to obsolete bochs-bios or provide it.  While kvm 0.12
> and newer will only work with seabios, there are other uses for bochs-bios in
> Fedora {probably not in RHEL}.  Both rpms can be installed side by side, and
> once this package is in the repository kvm will be updated to use and require
> seabios.

OK.

> I have a spec update to include the source conventions and directory ownership,
> just want consensus on the arch issue before it is pushed.  FWIW, vgabios is
> built in a similar fashion, with buildarch: noarch  

The problem is, as it is now, you're going to run into problems building it on
a koji-type system that has non-x86 architectures; it will get assigned to
non-x86 builders and fail.

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