On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 11:11:00PM +0300, Alexey Tourbin wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 02:12:53PM +0300, Dmitry V. Levin wrote:
> > Isn't it too hard indeed?  Maybe we could patch rpmbuild to make such
> > packages noarch automatically?
> 
> rpmbuild itself cannot decide whether certain packages should be noarch.
> Consider my previous example with perl-Net-IP-1.25-alt3.noarch.rpm (yeah,
> it's been fixed).  It contains /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/Net/IP.pm.
> This is plain text file, but since it is under /usr/lib, we cannot
> automatically decide whether it's good for noarch (e.g. it might have
> platform-specific paths hardcoded into it).  So, to decide whether IP.pm
> is good enough for noarch, we should build the package on both
> architectures and ensure that IP.pm is exactly the same.

There's another option: to coerce packages into noarch posthumously.
Which is to rename .i586.rpm -> .noarch.rpm and to edit the header.
This will require girar-builder redesign, but it seems doable.