[Fedora-packaging] Explicit "Requires" should (usually) be arch-specific

Tom Lane tgl at redhat.com
Tue Sep 15 23:12:15 UTC 2009


Braden McDaniel <braden at endoframe.com> writes:
> Since apparently a requirement for "foo" can be satisfied by any
> available architecture for which a "foo" is available, "Requires" that
> do not specify the architecture are unsafe for multilib systems (unless
> the dependency really can be satisfied by any architecture--which does
> not strike me as the most common case).

Surely this is a bug, not something that every single specfile must
work around.

			regards, tom lane




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