Heads up: Noarch Subpackages

Joe Orton jorton at redhat.com
Thu Feb 12 10:54:34 UTC 2009


On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 10:54:01AM +0100, Florian Festi wrote:
> So what can you do right now?
>
> If you are interested you can already play with noarch subpackages by
> building with mock and comparing the results on different arches with
> rpmdiff [4] (ignoring differences in S, 5 and T). There is going to be
> little time between support in koji and the feature freeze. So being
> prepared for this short time slot is a good thing.

I take it from the wiki page, that we should hold of on using this too 
aggressively until some distro-wide guidelines are produced?

e.g. for -devel packages given that 99% of the content is generally 
noarch-able there would be a lot of scope for splitting those up.

Regards, Joe




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