[Fedora-packaging] Arch-specific Requires
Braden McDaniel
braden at endoframe.com
Tue Jul 6 05:50:09 UTC 2010
On Sat, 2010-03-13 at 15:04 -0500, Braden McDaniel wrote:
> I brought up the issue of arch-specific Requires some months ago in
> response to problems I experienced with xulrunner. This issue has
> reared its head again with gvfs on F13:
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=573183
>
> I've put up this draft:
>
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/ArchSpecificRequires
>
> Comments welcome.
>
James Antill added this text re: when Requires should *not* be
arch-specific:
A package has a Build-Requires on a specific arch. library
(because rpmbuild evaluates the %{_isa} at .src.rpm buildtime,
and not at .src.rpm => .arch.rpm build time).
I don't understand what this is saying. Can anyone put this in more
lucid terms?
--
Braden McDaniel <braden at endoframe.com>
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