buildsystem: COMMON (noarch) rpm support?

[Ville Skyttä]

On Fri, 2005-08-05 at 11:11 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote:
> Does the FE buildsystem support the notion of COMMON (noarch) rpms 
> between different releases/branches, archs/targets?

Partially.  noarch packages are always only built once and the same
package copied over to arch-specific directories, but only within one
release/branch.

>   (ie, if I have such 
> a thing, will it need to be built on/for each/every branch and target?)

See the "Package needing to be shared across multiple branches" thread
on -maintainers from yesterday and today.  You can request (in Wiki's
FCxStatus pages) large, noarch, distro version independent packages to
be copied from one distro version's repository to another.  The copying
is currently a manual process, so please restrict the requests only to
large packages where the space savings are considerable (IMHO something
like several MB).

> The package in question is mathml-fonts.

That's only about 1MB source+binary, hardly worth the trouble.