Planning the Fedora 11 Mass Rebuild

Tom Lane tgl at redhat.com
Fri Feb 13 20:16:17 UTC 2009


"Tom \"spot\" Callaway" <tcallawa at redhat.com> writes:
> On 2009-02-13 at 14:53:08 -0500, Jesse Keating <jkeating at redhat.com> wrote:
>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/ArchitectureSupport
>> All i386 packages becoming i586 packages.

> One thing we need to be careful about is arch conditionals. I'm sure
> there are some packages which conditionalize around things like "%ifarch
> i386" or "ExclusiveArch: i386". These will all need to be adjusted in
> order for a mass rebuild to be successful.

Hmm, I've got some specfiles that pay attention to the output of "uname -i".
Should I expect that that might change from i386?  Is there a different
more-recommended way to get the arch type in a build script?

			regards, tom lane




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