[Fedora-packaging] Arch-specific Requires
seth vidal
skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Wed Jul 7 14:12:33 UTC 2010
On Wed, 2010-07-07 at 09:53 -0400, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
> > So are you suggesting that yum should look for foobar(somearchspec) and
> > reinterpret those based on what the local system is?
>
> Well, to be fair, I'm just trying to understand where the concern is here.
That's fine - I'm just trying to make sure i'm on the right page here,
too.
> I'm not sure it makes sense for yum to reinterpret SRPM Requires. I
> suspect there are some potential situations where a spec would want to
> hardcode:
>
> BuildRequires: foo(x86-32)
>
> And wouldn't want yum re-evaluating it.
Agreed.
-sv
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