Heads up: NoArch Sub Packages Feature continues

Jerry James loganjerry at gmail.com
Mon Jun 15 22:01:03 UTC 2009


On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 1:33 PM, Seth Vidal<skvidal at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> Yes, as I explained on irc, it's doable - but where it gets implemented (and
> what else it breaks) is not as obvious as an easy fix of adding an obsoletes
> to the pkgs which are changing arch.
>
> The bug is still open and it will get worked on but it is pressing when
> there is an utterly trivial solution the packager can choose.

Can we put a note about this somewhere on or under
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/NoarchSubpackages ?  It's
clear that how yum behaves in this respect differs from what some
packagers expect.

FWIW, my expectations were set by these, especially the latter:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=189998
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=192837

Regards,
-- 
Jerry James
http://www.jamezone.org/




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