There are many ways, you just have to decide what matches your case the best.
Another approach may look like the following:
1) check, if you're building on x86_64 etc.
I am always building on x86-32. In fact Skype is 32-bit only software. I think I mentioned this before, but worth mentioning again.
2) if the above AND building on SUSE, Require: alsa-plugins-pulse-32bit 3) if not on SUSE nor 64bit, always use the 'normal' package name
%ifarch x86_64 amd64 ia32e %if 0%{suse_version} Requires: alsa-plugins-pulse-32bit %endif %else Requires: alsa-plugins-pulse(x86-32) %endif
Easy and straightforward, don't you think?
Is this going to be in the .spec file when building the RPM? If yes, doesn't seem to solve my problem at all, since %ifarch x86_64 amd64 ia32e is going to be always false and then it will always require alsa-plugins-pulse(x86-32), which fails then to install on 64-bit openSUSE. As previously said I need to have ONE single RPM, created by ONE single build machine (32-bit openSUSE), that works for all openSUSE out there (forget about Fedora right now, that RPM is going to be built on a different machine). Rather this seems to be the solution in case we would build TWO different RPM packages from TWO different openSUSE build machines, one for x86-32 and one for x86-64. One more time: I am lacking to understand how to create a MULTIARCH single RPM package that pulls the same 32-bit package on both openSUSE 32 and 64-bit. So either I am lacking to understand your solution or I explained my point in a non clear way. Hope you can clarify. And thank you to everyone is trying to solve my problem in your spare time. best Marco ----- Linux UI team, Skype UI developer see & chat: marco write: marco.cimmino@skype.net ________________________________________ From: Aeneas Jaißle [aj@ajaissle.de] Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2014 3:09 PM To: opensuse-packaging@opensuse.org Cc: Marco Cimmino Gibellini Subject: RE: [opensuse-packaging] Re: RPM in openSUSE 13.1 Am 2014-01-16 20:50, schrieb Marco Cimmino Gibellini:
Hi again, I am honest with you, I am not really interested in internal discussions, nor you telling me how I should code or not code. Since Skype does NOT make calls on openSUSE 13.1 64-bit out of the box, I need to address this issue pulling the right dependencies to make this happen.
I am asking a simple question I think and I did not get a specific answer or maybe I got lost with the too many of them. Is there a way in openSUSE to create ONE single RPM that is MULTIARCH, like all the major distributions allows since ~2012, that pulls a SPECIFIC package at 32-bit, regardless the running openSUSE arch underneath. This package is indeed: alsa-plugins-pulse(x86-32)
So far I tried many ways and either works for 32-bit only or 64-bit, it does not work for both or sometimes it failed to work at all. Someone else suggested to depend on a specific library name, don't like too much this approach, seems just a workaround and may break with library's name change in the future, but if it is the only way ok, is this going to work? Requires: libasound_conf_pulse.so
best Marco
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