Handling package conflicts caused by arch specific doc files

Rex Dieter rdieter at math.unl.edu
Thu Jul 3 12:42:17 UTC 2014


Panu Matilainen wrote:

> On 07/02/2014 04:15 PM, Ankur Sinha wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I was wondering if there's a standard way of solving package conflicts
>> that arise from arch specific doc files. An example is here:
>>
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=565676
>>
>> The conflict is because the docs are generated during the build, and the
>> files, even though they are installed in the same location, differ.
> 
> Splitting the docs to a separate (noarch) sub-package is a commonly
> used, simple and sane solution.

And, will catch errors like this automatically, since koji enforces that 
noarch content be identical on all archs.

-- Rex



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