wesnoth F-11 and noarch subpackage

Jon Ciesla limb at jcomserv.net
Tue Feb 24 19:14:36 UTC 2009


Warren Togami wrote:
> Hi Jon,
>
> koji buildsys just grew support for noarch subpackages.  It is time to 
> go ahead with changing wesnoth F-11 to noarch subpackages instead of 
> using the non-standard koji extra arches as F-9 and F-10 use.  Here 
> are the proposed steps to take:
>
> 1) http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=4097
> Keep F-9 and F-10 with the 1.4.x version, using koji extra arches 
> as-is.  Why?  While koji F-10 supports noarch sub-packages, F-9 rpm 
> doesn't support it.  Also while I personally would prefer F-10 be 
> upgraded to the upcoming wesnoth-1.6.x version, fedora-games SIG 
> rejected this in the past because it breaks existing saved games.  (I 
> don't particularly care that it does, but whatever.)
> 2) Prepare a new wesnoth-1.5.x.src.rpm using noarch subpackages.
> 3) Remove the current conditionals that builds and installs different 
> stuff depending on the arch.
> 4) Add "BuildArch: noarch" to the data subpackage.
> 5) Test the build locally on F-10 or F-11.  Is only the data 
> subpackage noarch?
> 6) Ask rel-eng to remove extra arches from wesnoth dist-f11.
> 7) Checkin and build.
>
Sounds good to me.  I've got a local build of 1.5.10 that I can modify 
for this, unless you want to do the above.

> Warren Togami
> wtogami at redhat.com


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