Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-packaging (109 mails)

[Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Oct 15 2007 09:41, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:
>> 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?
>
>It's a pointless exercise. The noarch files need to be built somehow, and if 
>you turn of everything that might result in an architecture dependency, then 
>this also includes all nontrivial tools for producing architecture 
>independent files. You really need to know what you are doing when creating 
>noarch packages.
>
>  Name: not-noarch
>  Summary: Not a noarch package
>  Version: 1
>  Release: 0
>  License: GPL
>  Group: Application/Text
>  BuildArch: noarch
>  BuildRoot: %{_builddir}/%{name}-root
[...]

It is actually much easier: rpmbuild --target=noarch -bb bash.spec

In 10.2 this works most of the time, in 10.3 it works on less packages 
(configure seems to dislike --target=noarch-suse-linux, and rightfully 
so)

To answer Thorsten's question, just let %ifarch do its usual thing. 
*All* that I want is to have specific packages *marked* noarch (i.e. rpm 
--qf="%{ARCH}" returning noarch on them). So BuildArch: on subpackages 
pretty much should work like the Group:, i.e. inherited from the main 
package and possible to override.
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