[Fedora-packaging] Arch-specific Requires
James Antill
james at fedoraproject.org
Thu Jul 8 04:28:49 UTC 2010
On Wed, 2010-07-07 at 21:50 -0400, Braden McDaniel wrote:
> Well, with respect to what to do about a guideline for BuildRequires and
> %{?_isa}, I'm back to being confused.
>
> Matthias' comment suggests to me that %{?_isa} should be recommended in
> BuildRequires for non-noarch packages; but the ensuing discussion makes
> me less certain of that. The result of this uncertainty is that I'm
> back to thinking that mention of BuildRequires should be dropped from
> this draft and its issues deferred to another one.
_isa in BuildRequires doesn't work atm. and shouldn't be used. There
are possible fixes, but all of them are non-trivial.
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