On Fri, 2009-03-06 at 13:03 -0500, Andrew Overholt wrote: > On Fri, 2009-03-06 at 09:52 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: > > I thought Mamoru had it correct, and the bug was in the spec: it > > declared noarch but used %_libdir, which is not valid and makes no > > sense, %_libdir being inherently arch-dependent. > > A counter-argument to this that I can think of is Java bytecode. It's > architecture-independent but an architecture-dependent package is > required to produce it. > > It's the same situation here: the Eclipse SDK has some > architecture-dependent bits (most notably SWT, the graphical toolkit) > and is thus arch-dependent yet the package in question (EMF) is pure > bytecode and is thus architecture-independent. One solution I can think > of is to make the 'eclipse' SRPM create arch-dependent RPMs for the > arch-dependent bits and make its other RPMs noarch. This was only > recently possible with Fedora's rpm package. Ah, I see. Thanks for the explanation. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
