Heads up: NoArch Sub Packages Feature continues

[Seth Vidal]

On Mon, 15 Jun 2009, Jerry James wrote:

> 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

No.

Putting a note there will just need to be cleaned up when I get to fixing 
that bug.

It's incredibly minor.


-sv