Multiarch conflicts on devel packages with %doc files

[Eric Sandeen]

Christopher Stone wrote:
> On 10/19/07, Eric Sandeen <sandeen at redhat.com> wrote:
>> Christopher Stone wrote:
>>> I am getting a multiarch conflict on %doc files in a devel
>>> subpackage[1].  Are we supposed to avoid %doc files in devel packages
>>> for multiarch purposes, or am I doing something wrong in my spec, or
>>> is this a multiarch rpm bug?
>>>
>>> [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=340771
>>>
>> What differs between the files on the 2 arches?  Any chance there are
>> timestamps?  Oh, yeah:
>>
>>       "Generated at Wed Jan 31 13:22:54 2007 by ..."
>>
>> you might want to supress that or filter it out; it'll cause the files
>> to have different checksums.
> 
> oh shoot, this sucks.  okay ill see what I can do.  Thanks for
> figuring that out for me.

You could probably just add a patch to modify the shipped
docs/api_footer.html file to remove the timestamp?

-Eric