Heads up: More Noarch Subpackages

Florian Festi ffesti at redhat.com
Sun Feb 15 08:38:18 UTC 2009


Matthias Clasen wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-02-14 at 12:31 +0100, Florian Festi wrote:
>> As the amount of packages that can easily turned into noarch subpackages is 
>> not that high I was curious where all these possible noarch files are. Then 
>> I realized that I was already collecting this data[*] and I just have to 
>> print it out. The result is a list of packages that would be worth splitting 
>> into an arch dependent and a noarch subpackage (e.g. -data or -common). 
>> Details are described on.
>>
>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/NoarchSubpackages#Candidates_for_splitting_off_noarch_subpackages
>>
> 
> Hey Florian, when I tried to noarch the evolution-help subpackage, I got
> some build error about unpackaged debuginfo: 
> http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/getfile?taskID=1127341&name=build.log

Sorry. I did not repeat it in the second mail: We are still waiting for koji 
to be updated. Noarch subpackages do not work in koji yet. You can build 
locally with mock to check your spec files and experiment with noarch 
subpackages.

Florian




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