Multiarch support for mock

[Michael_E_Brown at Dell.com]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: fedora-buildsys-list-bounces at redhat.com 
> [mailto:fedora-buildsys-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of 
> seth vidal
> Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2006 1:27 PM
> To: Discussion of Fedora build system
> Subject: RE: Multiarch support for mock
> 
> On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 11:08 -0500, Michael_E_Brown at Dell.com wrote:
> > Wouldn't a "BuildRequires: glibc.i686" work ok? Or am I missing 
> > something?
> 
> it would work to pull in the package in mock - b/c it would 
> be passed directly to yum which understands that string. 
> However, it won't work otherwise b/c rpm doesn't know about 
> archs in Requires or BuildRequires.

SUSE build.rpm has a format that it uses for buildrequires, which I
thought was somewhat 'special' (short-bus type): it uses
specially-formatted comments in the spec file to embed build requires
lines. Does it make sense to add this as a workaround for this
special-case? Ie. Add a special "# mock-build-requires: glibc.i386" for
this RPM so that we do not break RPM, but still work with mock? This
probably isn't optimal, but a better solution eludes me atm.

--
Michael