[Fedora-packaging] Do we allow arch specific Requires: in spec?

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Thu May 14 15:05:06 UTC 2009


Parag N(पराग़) wrote:
> Hi all,
>     Just found one old bugzilla link
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=235755 which tells rpm in
> rawhide allows arch specific Requires: in spec.
>     Just want to know is it possible in Fedora and since which rpm
> version? I found link from comment #19 is not working. Is there any
> package in fedora currently using this? Just curious to know what will
> be the case where one really need arch specific Requires?
>    I can't find anything related to this written in
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines#Requires

Try this:

Requires: somepackage%{?_isa}

Paul.




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