Hi,
On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 01:04:18PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
What does this rpmlint message mean? I don't understand why it's harmful to have patches only applying to particular architectures.
ical.src: W: %ifarch-applied-patch Patch3: ical-2.2-ia64.patch A patch is applied inside an %ifarch block. Patches must be applied on all architectures and may contain necessary configure and/or code patch to be effective only on a given arch.
It likely means that you have a construct like this in a spec file:
%ifarch x86_64 Patch1: some.patch %endif
what means that the patch is included to srpm only on the x86_64 arch. This is wrong since the patch has to be included in sprm for all arches even though it's applied only on one arch.
I had build problems related to this recently ;)