Bug 6436 - RPM needs an Architecture: tag
Summary: RPM needs an Architecture: tag
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: rpm
Version: 6.1
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Jeff Johnson
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 1999-10-28 00:58 UTC by Matthias Urlichs
Modified: 2008-05-01 15:37 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2000-09-14 18:08:26 UTC
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Description Matthias Urlichs 1999-10-28 00:58:48 UTC
Let's say my installed package contains both
architecture-specific and nonspecific components. For
instance, the SNMP library (code, and MIB files).

I'd like to be able to say
Name: libsnmp

...

%package mibs
Summary: MIB files for libsnmp
Architecture: noarch

thus the code would get i386 or whatever, and the
libsnmp-mibs package would be created with "noarch".

Currently I see no way to do that, other than splitting the
whole thing into two separate packages which happen to share
a source file (libsnmp.tar.gz or whatever), which isn't
really a good idea IMHO.

Comment 1 Jeff Johnson 1999-10-28 15:07:59 UTC
This feature comes up from time to time on rpm-list. Here's
the current rationale for not providing the feature:

The lack of the ability to have a noarch sub-package is a conscious
design decision in rpm. The intent has been that the arch/os platform
is unchanged throughout the processing of a spec file on a build
system in order to provide a stronger guarantee that the binary
packages are associated with a single source package generated on a
single build host at a certain moment in time.

Permitting a sub-package with "BuildArch: noarch" weakens this
guarantee because there would be a set of generated noarch packages,
one from each of the build platforms, all with the same name, some of
which may not "work" (consider packaging something like X11 fonts in a
noarch package that might have byte-order dependencies in older
formats) dependent on which build host was used to produce the noarch
package.

Comment 2 Jeff Johnson 2001-02-21 19:37:33 UTC
Gonna close this, as I can't change the behavior.


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