[Bug 553706] Review Request: seabios - Open-source legacy BIOS implementation

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--- Comment #5 from Justin M. Forbes <jforbes at redhat.com>  2010-01-08 16:12:10 EDT ---
I can go either way.  There is benefit in having the package noarch because
things besides kvm can actually use the bios image.  That said, having an empty
package to facilitate this seems really hackish too.

For the python-devel buildrequires, it is actually needed.  Testing in mock
showed that it would not build without python-devel.  The compiler test script
uses it.

It does not make sense to obsolete bochs-bios or provide it.  While kvm 0.12
and newer will only work with seabios, there are other uses for bochs-bios in
Fedora {probably not in RHEL}.  Both rpms can be installed side by side, and
once this package is in the repository kvm will be updated to use and require
seabios.

Builds were tested in mock for x86_64 and x86.

I have a spec update to include the source conventions and directory ownership,
just want consensus on the arch issue before it is pushed.  FWIW, vgabios is
built in a similar fashion, with buildarch: noarch

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