Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-packaging (109 mails)

[Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@xxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Oct 15, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:

> On Sunday 14 October 2007 21:39:44 Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> > On Oct 14 2007 21:12, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:
> > >On Sunday 14 October 2007 12:55, Pascal Bleser wrote:
> > >> Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:
> > >> > Why not fix this rpm defect instead? This limitation really doesn't
> > >> > make sense.
> > >>
> > >> You have a patch to discuss with Jeff ? :)
> > >
> > >No, but didn't Jan say he'd volunteer to write one? ;-)
> >
> > I thought Novell was comitted to opensource?
> 
> Yes, and not only to this particular problem. In fact the reason why this 
> problem hasn't been fixed yet is that there are too many other open problems 
> which have higher priority, and so nobody got to this one, yet. We are not 
> acting as we do out of ill will, but because of limited resources. I hope you 
> can appreciate that.

I think this idea was already rejected upstream, since RPM
has no chance to make sure that the content is really noarch.

If you build a normal noarch package, all arch specific commands
like "ifarch" are disabled and will be ignored. How to do that for
a subpackage?

  Thorsten

-- 
Thorsten Kukuk, Project Manager/Release Manager SLES
SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, D-90409 Nuernberg
GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nuernberg)
---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxx
For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+help@xxxxxxxxxxxx