[Fedora-packaging] Packaging-related changes in GNOME

Panu Matilainen pmatilai at laiskiainen.org
Fri Nov 19 07:29:45 UTC 2010


On Fri, 19 Nov 2010, Panu Matilainen wrote:

> On Wed, 17 Nov 2010, James Antill wrote:
>> 2. Given the use of %{__isa_bits) we almost certainly want the requires
>> to use %{_isa}.
>
> Indeed. No if's and but's, the dependency MUST either have %{_isa}, or be
> changed to a file dependency. Ie the require(s) need to be on either
> "glib2%{_isa}" or "%{_bindir}/gio-querymodules-%{__isa_bits}", whichever
> is preferred.

Oh, all three guidelines had similar constructs... so more generally: 
the requires MUST be on either the main package with %{_isa}, or on the 
full path to the binary.

 	- Panu -


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