---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Alexey Eremenko <al4321@gmail.com> Date: Apr 19, 2006 4:48 PM Subject: Attention: Lots of SUSE packages are packaged incorrect To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Hi all ! I would like to discuss with the SUSE community one mistake commonly done by SUSE packagers: more specifically - the RPM architecture in SUSE. I have found a LOT of noarch packages built for the i586 architecture in SUSE Linux 10.0. I propose to people to identify those packages, that should be made "noarch" but for some obscure reason are not. Most packages that were built in the incorrect way were documentation, but some others were written in Interpreted languages. (like Python) One example of interpreted language package that is i586 but should be noarch is : "eric" IDE I have not dive too deep, but I'm sure there are other examples. The other incorrectly packaged packages are docs - quick search returns me: linux:/mnt/cdrom/suse/i586 # ls | grep doc | sort | cat -n 1 apache2-doc-2.0.54-10.i586.rpm 2 atk-doc-1.10.3-2.i586.rpm 3 at-spi-doc-1.6.6-2.i586.rpm 4 bind-doc-9.3.1-8.i586.rpm 5 cvs-doc-1.12.12-4.i586.rpm 6 docbook2x-0.8.5-5.i586.rpm 7 gconf2-doc-2.12.0-2.i586.rpm 8 glib2-doc-2.8.1-3.i586.rpm 9 gnome-doc-utils-0.4.0-2.i586.rpm 10 gnome-panel-doc-2.12.0-5.i586.rpm 11 gnome-vfs2-doc-2.12.0-9.i586.rpm 12 gtk2-doc-2.8.3-4.i586.rpm 13 gtksourceview-doc-1.4.1-2.i586.rpm 14 kdelibs3-doc-3.4.2-24.i586.rpm 15 krb5-doc-1.4.1-5.i586.rpm 16 libbonobo-doc-2.10.1-3.i586.rpm 17 libbonoboui-doc-2.10.1-3.i586.rpm 18 libglade2-doc-2.5.1-9.i586.rpm 19 libgnomecanvas-doc-2.12.0-2.i586.rpm 20 libgnome-doc-2.12.0.1-2.i586.rpm 21 libgnomeprint-doc-2.12.0-4.i586.rpm 22 libgnomeprintui-doc-2.12.0-3.i586.rpm 23 libgnomeui-doc-2.12.0-3.i586.rpm 24 libgsf-doc-1.12.1-3.i586.rpm 25 libicu-doc-3.4-3.i586.rpm 26 libreadline-java-javadoc-0.8.0-11.i586.rpm 27 lilypond-documentation-2.6.3-2.i586.rpm 28 python-twisted-doc-2.0.0-2.i586.rpm 29 qt3-devel-doc-3.3.4-28.i586.rpm 30 samba-doc-3.0.20-4.i586.rpm 31 xen-doc-html-3.0_6715-2.i586.rpm 32 xen-doc-pdf-3.0_6715-2.i586.rpm 33 xen-doc-ps-3.0_6715-2.i586.rpm now, 33 doc packages are i386 ? And, of course all of them contain binaries, huh! :) Look, it wastes time & server space to get noarch packges built for different platforms. Why is this ? OS: SUSE Linux 10.0 -Alexey Eremenko. 19.04.2006.