On Fri, Dec 30, 2016 at 12:09:24AM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 26, 2016 at 09:59:54AM +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> > On Sun, 25 Dec 2016 21:33:52 -0500, David Muse wrote:
> >
> > > I guess noarch packages shouldn't have any arch-specific dependencies.
> > > Is that correct?
> >
> > Yes.
>
> Umm really? Can you explain exactly what's wrong with this?
>
> I think the answer should be _no_ (ie. it's fine for noarch packages
> to have arch-ful Requires). Of course the dependencies must be
> available otherwise the noarch package cannot be installed.
OK, maybe you're talking about having %{_isa} in the spec file, ie:
%package doc
...
BuildArch: noarch
Requires: %{name}%{?_isa} = %{version}-%{release}
? That would make the dependency include "(x86-64)" (or whatever
arch the noarch package built on) and that would be wrong.
Rich.
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