In regard to: How to build an RPM for noarch, Fulko.Hew@xxxxxxxxx said (at...:
I am using a version of rpm (3.0.6L) build for SCO Openserver and I am trying to build an RPM thats noarch and therefore usable on any OS.
noarch is only half of what you need, RPM still encodes the OS that your RPM was built for into the package. You also need to do something like:
I currently have in my spec file:
... BuildArch: noarch
BuildOS: noos
(I haven't tried this, the syntax might be incorrect). You're going to run into problems, though, because while the noarch compatibility tables have been established as part of RPM for a long time (check your system's full rpmrc, probably in /usr/lib/rpm or /local/lib/rpm), the noos tables haven't been fully developed.
To get things working, you'll need to develop the OS compatibility tables so that "noos" shows up as compatible with "scos_sv".
If you have trouble doing that, send me an email off-list. I've wanted to develop those tables for a long time, but that project is on the "never gets scheduled" list for me. Maybe if other people need that functionality it would be enough to get me motivated to finish it.
The usual searching (so far) hasn't found me any clues as to what I'm missing or not doing right.
Search for "noos" on the list archive, probably back several months to a year. It's been talked about before here.
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