On Sat, 2008-03-15 at 17:46 +0200, Panu Matilainen wrote:
This is precisely my hangup (as silly as it is) with adding
"bitness-specific" requires to rpm - nobody has come up with a *good* name
for it. Good as in "Oh yes, that's it! How come I didn't think of
that!"
We'll be stuck with the thing forever once introduced, so I'd prefer
something I like over something I can kinda live with.
%{_bits}, %{_bitness}, %{_bitsize}, %{_wordsize} and similar have been
suggested before. While any of them would work for this purpose, they're
awfully limited in terms of what they express, and make noarch an odd
special case: noarch is not really "zero bits".
%{_arch_personality}
that let's people know personality doesn't mean 'clever, witty, good
with children'.
-sv