On Sat, 2010-03-13 at 15:04 -0500, Braden McDaniel wrote:
I brought up the issue of arch-specific Requires some months ago in response to problems I experienced with xulrunner. This issue has reared its head again with gvfs on F13:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=573183
I've put up this draft:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/ArchSpecificRequires
Comments welcome.
James Antill added this text re: when Requires should *not* be arch-specific:
A package has a Build-Requires on a specific arch. library (because rpmbuild evaluates the %{_isa} at .src.rpm buildtime, and not at .src.rpm => .arch.rpm build time).
I don't understand what this is saying. Can anyone put this in more lucid terms?