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".