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

Ville Skyttä ville.skytta at iki.fi
Wed May 20 07:48:04 UTC 2009


On Thursday 14 May 2009, Jochen Schmitt wrote:

> I assume arch depending requirtes are not helpful yet. I have a package
> called fedora-ksplice which contains only shell scripts, so it may be a
> noarch
> package. But unfortunately it's depends on ksplice which is only available
> for %{x86} and x86_64. This caused, that the package could not build as an
> noarch package, because that make no sense to put a noarch
> fedora-ksplice package
> to a ppc repository.

As I suggested in bug 498707, you should be able to build it as noarch and use 
ExclusiveArch to limit the arch repos where it gets shipped.




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