Heads up: Noarch Subpackages

Richard W.M. Jones rjones at redhat.com
Thu Feb 12 11:16:22 UTC 2009


On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 10:54:01AM +0100, Florian Festi wrote:
> With version 4.6.0 RPM supports subpackages being noarch by just
> adding "BuildArch: noarch" to their subpackage section in the spec
> file. There now is a Feature [1] that tries to bring noarch
> subpackages to Fedora. There are still some koji fixes that need to
> hit the Fedora build system. So noarch subpackages DO NOT WORK within
> Fedora YET. We hope that this can be solved soon. Watch out for koji
> outages.

What we needed for OCaml was a noarch main package and arch-specific
subpackages.  Is this now possible?

Rich.

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