On Mon, Dec 26, 2016 at 09:59:54AM +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote:
On Sun, 25 Dec 2016 21:33:52 -0500, David Muse wrote:
> I guess noarch packages shouldn't have any arch-specific dependencies.
> Is that correct?
Yes.
Umm really? Can you explain exactly what's wrong with this?
I think the answer should be _no_ (ie. it's fine for noarch packages
to have arch-ful Requires). Of course the dependencies must be
available otherwise the noarch package cannot be installed.
A typical example would be a -doc subpackage (noarch, built once and
can be copied across architectures) documenting a C library (arch-ful,
and built on each architecture).
Unless you're talking about something different ...
Rich.
Noarch packages may be built on any machine of any arch, they may be
copied to any repository for any arch, and they are supposed to be usable
with any arch. Unless "ExcludeArch" is set.
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