On Friday, December 14, 2018 2:33:36 PM EST Igor Gnatenko wrote:
Hello folks,
for long time we have problem if you have some arch-specific
BuildRequires, you still get one src.rpm from one of arches (not sure
how koji chooses that one) which might not work for your architecture.
For example if you have following in spec:
%ifarch %{ldc_arches}
BuildRequires: ldc
%endif
And the src.rpm is taken by koji from x86_64 (included in
%{ldc_arches}), then you won't be able to run `dnf builddep foo`,
because it will complain that ldc package is missing.
PROPOSAL:
1. make fedora-release archful
2. add Provides: system-architecture($arch) to fedora-release, where
$arch is architecture name
3. use Requires: (foo if (system-architecture(x86_64) or
system-architecture(i686))) in packages
What do you think? Any suggestions are welcome!
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-Igor Gnatenko
Really, I don't think that making what is a legitimate noarch package, such as
fedora-release or generic-release (keep in mind this would affect both, and
would be an extreme change affecting Remixes) is the way to go here. We can
already test against architectures using `%ifarch`, and sure that's not clean
when you're testing against a *range* of architectures, but it's definitely
better than adding additional complexity to a noarch package.
If anything, perhaps a virtual package, as suggested by others in this thread,
would be the way to go.
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