Reorganization of src.rpm: not arch agnostic

[Jesse Keating]

On Friday 17 March 2006 10:56, Axel Thimm wrote:
> while putting together these src.rpms under one folder was a good
> thing, it uncovers an issue with conditional and macro-dependent
> BuildRequires, i.e. they become static and reveal the arch in nasty
> ways.
>
> For instance the current gcc src.rpm as it will be shipped with FC5
> will only install (aka extract) on x86_64 systems. Other archs will
> need to use --nodeps.
>
> Not something one can really fix, not even really work around it in a
> clean fashion, but I'd rather give a heads-up to such ugly beasts. :/

Eww, indeed that is a side effect I was not aware of.  I'm going to have to 
think on this one for a bit and get some other folks to think about it as 
well.

-- 
Jesse Keating
Release Engineer: Fedora
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