Heads up: Noarch Subpackages

[Nicolas Mailhot]

Le Jeu 12 février 2009 11:54, Joe Orton a écrit :
>
> On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 10:54:01AM +0100, Florian Festi wrote:
>> So what can you do right now?
>>
>> If you are interested you can already play with noarch subpackages
>> by
>> building with mock and comparing the results on different arches
>> with
>> rpmdiff [4] (ignoring differences in S, 5 and T). There is going to
>> be
>> little time between support in koji and the feature freeze. So being
>> prepared for this short time slot is a good thing.
>
> I take it from the wiki page, that we should hold of on using this too
> aggressively until some distro-wide guidelines are produced?
>
> e.g. for -devel packages given that 99% of the content is generally
> noarch-able there would be a lot of scope for splitting those up.

Aevry single font subpackage of an arch app is noarchable - feel free
to convert them as soon as infra is ready

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Nicolas Mailhot