#660 Issue closed: expire the old noarch rear versions on Fedora Build service¶

Labels: cleanup

gdha opened issue at 2015-09-25 17:46:¶

we see now a rear.noarch and a rear.x86_64 version on Fedora Build Service. We should expire the noarch version within a few days..

schlomo commented at 2015-09-26 19:22:¶

Just to be sure, was that the story where the conflicting RPM dependencies for different archs are the motivator for going away from noarch?

gdha commented at 2015-09-28 14:11:¶

@schlomo indeed that was the main reason of the change (proposed by J Meixner)

jsmeix commented at 2015-09-29 08:22:¶

Actually it was @k0da who found the issue and reported it to me via personal mail.

Here what Dinar Valeev wrote in his mail to me:

There is last remaining bit, packaging.
We package rear as noarch but do require arch specific
bootloader as rpm requirement. See Require: syslinux
As this is noarch package I propose to change it
to Suggests: syslinux, because we can't make arch
dependent Requirements for noarch packages.
Just checked with Fedora spec, they do it wrong:
BuildArch: noarch
%ifarch %ix86 x86_64
Require: syslinux
%endif
%ifarch ppc ppc64
Require: yaboot
%endif

From that I created https://github.com/rear/rear/issues/629

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