Mock issue with ifarch BuildRequires

[Jesse Keating]

On Jul 16, 2009, at 5:16, Karsten Hopp <karsten at redhat.com> wrote:

> Am 14.07.2009 01:50, schrieb Gianluca Sforna:
>> Sorry for the cross-posting, I'm trying to get a clue...
>>
>>
>> ---------- 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>
>>
>>
>> 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.
>
> CC: our rpm maintainers for comments
>

ExcludeArch only works due to some hacks in our compose tools that  
looks at the srpm info to see if the srpm has that info. The info  
itself does not make it to the noarch rpm file.

--
Jes