On Fri, Dec 14, 2018 at 2:34 PM Igor Gnatenko
<ignatenkobr...@fedoraproject.org> 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!

In Mageia, we just had the package manager generate virtual Provides
for those things, so that packages can use that. Why wouldn't we just
make RPM/DNF do the same thing?



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