On Thu, 2 Aug 2007, dragoran wrote:
Panu Matilainen wrote:
On Fri, 27 Jul 2007, dragoran wrote:
Panu Matilainen wrote:
Not everybody is on rpm-maint list and we'd like to hear the wishes of
(Fedora) developers/packagers too. So: what have you always wanted to do
with rpm, but wasn't able to? Or the other way around: what you always
wished rpm would do for you? What always annoyed you out of your mind?
arch requires and provides ... to end the endless multilib discussions ;)
should be automatic until the packager say Requires: foo.arch
I wish it was that simple...
Sure, being able to say "Requires: foo.arch = version-release" would help
in many cases, but it does not *solve* the multilib problems.
A big offender here is the x86 architecture with i386, i486 ... etc
subarchitectures. While most packages are i386 there, the assumed
what about being able to say foo.i?86
What about foo.athlon which is also a 32bit arch?
And don't suggest "Requires: foo.i?86 || foo.athlon", because then you'd
have monsters like this in each and every spec:
%ifarch %{ix86}
Requires: foo.i?86 || foo.athlon
%fi
%ifarch x86_64
Requires: foo.x86_64
%fi
...
The exact %{arch} is not the point at all here.
- Panu -
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