Yum bug with kernel-source-2.6.6-1.383 (noarch)

Paul Nasrat pnasrat at redhat.com
Thu May 27 07:56:32 UTC 2004


On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 07:10:42PM -0500, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
> >>>>> "sv" == seth vidal <skvidal at phy.duke.edu> writes:
> 
> sv> ugh - kernel-source changed ARCH?! How did that happen?
> 
> Perhaps RPM can now build subpackages with architectures different
> than that of the main package.  It's certainly been a wishlist item
> for ages.

Nope - the kernel rpm has to be built with multiple targets anyway for the multiple archs noarch is just another conditional target.

This is a good thing - on ppc atm I had 3 soon to be 4 identical kernel-source
packages.  As for 2.6 we ship the whole tree anyway making it noarch is a good thing.

Paul





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