[Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] Fixes for some issues on Arm platforms (#901)

Neal Gompa (ニール・ゴンパ) notifications at github.com
Fri Oct 18 08:07:42 UTC 2019


> This is something we categorically don't want in Fedora, it will create a support nightmare where things that might work in Fedora won't work elsewhere, we have explicitly not added this mapping from out outset of aarch64 for that reason and we really don't want it now.

I don't agree at all. There is no conceivable reason that this would cause a "support nightmare", given the common acceptance of `arm64` == `aarch64` across tools and operating systems. In doing this, tools like `alien` work out of the box properly for going back and forth between rpm and deb, since there is a mapping for the architecture labels. People who are conventionally used to the other name will get the expected architecture when writing spec files to build packages, and so on.

I'm sorry we don't live in a perfect world where everybody uses rpm and bows to the will of a person on how architectures are named and referenced, but sadly it is necessary to deal with conventions like this.

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