noarch-python-in-64bit-path (rpmlint)

Jeremy Katz katzj at redhat.com
Thu Nov 15 01:30:52 UTC 2007


Neal Becker wrote:
> What should I do about this?
> 
> qct-mercurial.noarch: E:
> noarch-python-in-64bit-path /usr/lib64/python2.5/site-packages/hgext/qct.pyc
> 
> I think qct.py needs to go there, because that's where mercurial is going to
> look.  As we discussed before, our multi-arch python is somewhat broken,
> because you cannot have both /usr/lib/python/.../some_package
> and /usr/lib64/python/.../some_package.  It will only search one of those
> locations.  So we cannot have both arch and nonarch site-packages/hgext -
> unless maybe I'm misunderstanding something?

If it needs to be in the arch-specific path, the package needs to be 
built for the native arch and not noarch

Jeremy




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