rpmlint message '%ifarch-applied-patch'
Richard W.M. Jones
rjones at redhat.com
Wed Sep 19 12:04:18 UTC 2007
What does this rpmlint message mean? I don't understand why it's
harmful to have patches only applying to particular architectures.
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ical.src: W: %ifarch-applied-patch Patch3: ical-2.2-ia64.patch
A patch is applied inside an %ifarch block. Patches must be applied
on all architectures and may contain necessary configure and/or code
patch to be effective only on a given arch.
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The patch in question is:
--- ical-2.2/calendar/uid.C.ia64 Wed May 29 22:51:03 1996
+++ ical-2.2/calendar/uid.C Mon Apr 30 00:13:58 2001
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
#ifndef HAVE_GETHOSTNAME_PROTO
#ifdef linux
-extern "C" int gethostname(char*, unsigned int);
+extern "C" int gethostname(char*, unsigned long);
#else /* !linux */
extern "C" int gethostname(char*, int);
#endif /* linux */
Rich.
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