Heads up: NoArch Sub Packages Feature continues

Seth Vidal skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Mon Jun 15 14:44:34 UTC 2009



On Mon, 15 Jun 2009, Jerry James wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 8:19 AM, Florian Festi<ffesti at redhat.com> wrote:
>> The Noarch Sub Package Feature continues in F12. I just updated the package
>> lists and statistics on the Feature page[1]. I want to thank all the brave
>> package maintainers that converted some of their sub packages in the short
>> time frame before the F11 freeze and so gave us a test run before changing a
>> larger number of packages in F12.
>>
>> For package maintainer things that have been said before are still valid
>> (surprisingly Fedora didn't change much during the freeze). -doc, language
>> and -common packages are still the main candidates for being switched to
>> noarch while game or other data files are typical candidates for being split
>> into a new noarch sub package.
>
> Do you have any idea when
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=502401 is going to be
> fixed?  I'm reluctant to convert any more of my subpackages to noarch
> while that bug persists, given what happens when people try to install
> the noarch subpackages that I maintain (gcl-emacs and gcl-xemacs).
>
> Sure, I could make those subpackages Obsolete their former selves, but
> that won't help me with other people's noarch subpackages.  I've
> already had to upgrade several of those by hand due to this bug on my
> shiny new F-11 install.

Other people's noarch subpackages? Shouldn't they have obsoletes in place, 
too?

I know it's hard to grok but for all intents and purposes a arch change is 
A LOT like a package rename.

-sv




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