On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 03:57:33PM -0500, Thomas Cameron wrote:
> I normally write up my spec file except for the %files section, run
> rpmbuild -bb against it, and then find all the directories and files
> in /var/tmp/[package]-root to populate my %files section. I know this
> is the slacker way, but it always works.
>
> How *should* I do it? Because when I move a source RPM from my i386 to
> my x86_64 platform, it boogers up.
You can put %ifarch i386 / %endif around file lists, but if your
file list differs a lot between architectures, you may have
other issues to solve. Like using macros, like %{_libdir} etc.,
that is /usr/lib on i386 and /usr/lib64 on x86_64.
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