Hi, On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 01:04:18PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > What does this rpmlint message mean? I don't understand why it's harmful > to have patches only applying to particular architectures. > > ----- > > ical.src: W: %ifarch-applied-patch Patch3: ical-2.2-ia64.patch > A patch is applied inside an %ifarch block. Patches must be applied > on all architectures and may contain necessary configure and/or code > patch to be effective only on a given arch. > > ----- It likely means that you have a construct like this in a spec file: %ifarch x86_64 Patch1: some.patch %endif what means that the patch is included to srpm only on the x86_64 arch. This is wrong since the patch has to be included in sprm for all arches even though it's applied only on one arch. I had build problems related to this recently ;) -- Jindrich Novy <jnovy@xxxxxxxxxx> http://people.redhat.com/jnovy/ -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
