Re: [devel] forced noarch

["Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>]

2009/12/22 Alexey Tourbin <at@altlinux.ru>:
> On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 09:18:49PM +0300, Dmitry V. Levin wrote:
>> On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 11:05:56AM +0300, Alexey Tourbin wrote:
>> [...]
>> > http://git.altlinux.org/people/at/packages/girar-builder.git
>> > 642af655  gb-task-check-noarch-i: force noarch by extensional equality
>> [...]
>> > 3) Cannot make arch package with identical files and deps.
>> > E.g. cannot make arch perl module which should be noarch.
>> >
>> > [at@people 17774]$ PATH=~/git.alt/girar-builder:$PATH gb-task-check-noarch-i 5
>> > error (#5): perl-Net-IP-1.25-alt2.i586.rpm should be noarch
>>
>> This restriction looks too hard.  How many packages in current
>> repository would fail to pass the check?
>
> Why do you think it's too hard?  Basically, it says "if the list
> of files is the same, and ***md5 sums*** are identical, and deps
> are identical, the package must be noarch then".

I don't think that it's a good idea.

There are only two architectures in Sisyphus - i586 and x86_64,
which are similar. It's not enough to be sure, that package is
really noarch.

I think we should postpone the idea untill Sisyphus will have at
least one non-x86 arch and one big-endian arch.