Mock issue with ifarch BuildRequires

[Karsten Hopp]

Am 14.07.2009 01:50, schrieb Gianluca Sforna:
> Sorry for the cross-posting, I'm trying to get a clue...
>
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Gianluca Sforna<giallu at gmail.com>
> Date: Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 1:38 AM
> Subject: Mock issue with ifarch BuildRequires
> To: Discussion of Fedora build system<fedora-buildsys-list at redhat.com>
>
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> I am trying to run the tests included in the BuildBot package during
> the RPM build, and one of the tests requires darcs, which is built in
> Fedora ExclusiveArch %{ix86} x86_64 ppc alpha.
> Now, I'm adding to buildbot's spec[1] file an ifarch like:
>
> %ifarch %{ix86} x86_64 ppc alpha
> # darcs ExclusiveArchs
> BuildRequires:  darcs
> %endif
>
> but it seems darcs is never installed in the buildroot [2]
>
> am I just doing something stupid or there's a bug somewhere?
>
> [1] http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewvc/rpms/buildbot/devel/buildbot.spec?view=log
> [2] http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/getfile?taskID=1470380&name=root.log
>
>


%ifarch and %ifnarch unfortunately don't work in noarch packages. I think that's a bug,
the arch information is there as p.e. ExcludeArch works, and just those two don't get evaluated.

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