PuTTY 0.54 rpms (http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/)

[Gavin Henry]

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On Friday 20 February 2004 12:47, Mike A. Harris wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Feb 2004, Gavin Henry wrote:
> >> I looked at your SPEC file and compared it what I had. I have the
> >> following differences:
> >>
> >> 	+ What is the reason for choosing noarch ?
> >
> >I am a beginner with building rpms, so I am trying to do as many as
> > possible.
> >
> >I thought, if it was noarch it would indicate it would work on any rpm
> >distro.
>
> "noarch" means "no architecture" or rather "architecture
> independant", which means that the contents of the package are
> useable as-is on x86, AMD64, ia64, alpha, sparc, ppc, ppc64, etc.
> without modification.  Examples of noarch packages are
> documentation, fonts, other packages which are strictly
> architecture independant data, packages containing only
> interpreted perl, python, shell scripts, etc.
>
> Any package which contains code compiled specificially for a
> given architecture, such as i386, must not be flagged as
> "noarch", as rpm will allow it to be installed on any
> architecture then, which will result in failure at runtime.
>
> >> 	+ No manpages (there are 2 missing since the last release though)
> >
> >I need to check for these.
>
> Make sure rpm is configured to refuse to generate packages if any
> files have been installed in the buildroot which are not listed
> in the %files section.  That is the default if you install
> redhat-rpm-config.

I uninstalled this to stop the debug rpms being built. Is there another way?

>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Take care!
> TTYL
>
>
>
> --
> Mike A. Harris     ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris
> OS Systems Engineer - XFree86 maintainer - Red Hat

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Kind Regards,

Gavin Henry.
Director.

Open Source. Open Solutions.
http://www.suretecsystems.com
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