On Sun, May 29, 2005 at 10:52:34PM +0200, Jos Vos wrote: > On Sun, May 29, 2005 at 10:44:17PM +0200, Olivier Thauvin wrote: > > > I add a little explanation on IRC by Jeff Johnson: it allow to check on which > > arch was build the src.rpm and give a clue to trace the link src => binary > > (binary was really built from same src.rpm) with the COOKIE tag. > > Also not completely true, because "BuildArch: noarch" src.rpm's contain > "noarch" :-). Still not convinced it's useful... It is not that useful. Changing it to something else doesn't gain much improvement to the format of rpm files, only removes the surprise to people who start looking at the data content in rpm packages. greetings, Florian La Roche
