basearchonly
Bill Nottingham
notting at redhat.com
Wed Jan 21 22:32:07 UTC 2004
Paul Heinlein (heinlein at madboa.com) said:
> Seth or other comps.xml folks,
>
> Can someone give me a succinct explanation of the basearchonly
> attribute in <packagereq>, e.g.,
>
> <packagereq type="default" basearchonly="true">apmd</packagereq>
Take for example, how a x86_64 tree is built:
a) first, you fill in all the x86_64 packages
b) then for packages in comps, if an x86_64 version doesn't exist,
try and get an i386 version
basearchonly="true" means don't include this package in situations
such as b). i.e., no i386 apmd on x86-64.
Bill
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