Feature changed by: Michal Marek (michal-m) Feature #307624, revision 8 Title: Build all noarch subpackages as noarch openSUSE-11.3: Evaluation Priority Requester: Mandatory Requested by: Pavol Rusnak (prusnak) Description: The new RPM brought a feature which allows to build subpackages as noarch even when the main package is architecture dependent. By using this we could save lots of space on mirrors and media. See http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-factory/2009-09/msg00170.html for reference. Discussion: #1: Andreas Jaeger (a_jaeger) (2009-09-08 13:37:08) The referenced email speaks about a saving of more than 600 MB for the ftp tree and therefore I suggest to move forward with this. #2: Vincent Untz (vuntz) (2009-09-08 19:03:33) Would it be possible to have a webpage that is updated daily, showing the list of source packages that should get fixed? #3: Pavol Rusnak (prusnak) (2009-09-09 14:38:03) (reply to #2) I think it would make more sense to modify the rpmlint script to throw an error instead of warning if the package is not marked as noarch and contains no arch dependent files. (One can still ignore the error using rpmlintrc). #4: Stephan Kulow (coolo) (2009-09-09 14:58:18) (reply to #3) are you volunteering to fix em all? #5: Pavol Rusnak (prusnak) (2009-09-09 15:09:47) (reply to #4) As the fix is a oneliner patch to spec file I don't see a big problem. Once the Factory is unfrozen and the check is enabled (and the original maintainer hadn't fixed the problem already) I could go and fix the remaining packages. List of the packages generated from rpmlint reports might help, though. + #6: Michal Marek (michal-m) (2009-09-10 09:57:19) (reply to #5) + A list generated from rpmlint warnings instead of errors should work + for you as well, shouldn't it? I'm all for reducing duplication, but + does it justify breaking build of half of Factory? -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/307624