Why a multilib wrapper for non-multilib architectures?!

Eric Sandeen sandeen at redhat.com
Mon Jun 15 03:47:53 UTC 2009


Rex Dieter wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
> 
>> Personally I don't use multilib wrappers on arches that don't need it;
>> I think not needing extra cases in the wrapper header outweighs the
>> added complexity in the specfile.  But I'm not going to tell the gmp
>> maintainer he's wrong for doing it the other way.
> 
> +1
> 
> -- Rex

Heh, so I have it both ways in my packages, xfsprogs does it only for
(hand-defined) %{multilib_arches}, e2fsprogs does it for all, inherited
via cut and paste.

If someone who cared provided some nice rpm macros to work with, perhaps
we'd easily have the best of both worlds.  :)

-Eric




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