Building rpm, x86_64 and i386 architecture, rpm --upgrade
Mikolaj Kucharski
mikolaj at kucharski.name
Mon Apr 6 21:21:28 UTC 2009
Could someone experienced comment on my problem?
On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 04:04:24PM +0000, Mikolaj Kucharski wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've creted a .spec file for a rpm. The distfile are precompiled
> binary files for i386 and x86_64 so I'm just repackaging it with the
> proper directory hierarchy. Vendor rpm has both executables for i386 and
> x86_64. My package has binary for appropriate arch.
>
> As far as I understand, if the source (dist files) are working on
> %{ix86} and x86_64 I should have the following line in .spec:
>
> ExclusiveArch: %{ix86} x86_64
>
> Then I'm building the package on i686 host with command:
>
> $ rpmbuild -ba --clean megacli.spec
> $ rpmbuild -ba --clean --target x86_64 megacli.spec
>
> and that creates everything what I need. Now I have problem when I
> install any of those packages on x86_64 host.
>
> On x86_64 system I can install both packages and there will be no
> conflict message but I would like to get error when installing, or I
> would like that rpm will be replaced when I will run rpm --upgrade.
>
> How I can write .spec file to achieve that?
>
>
> # rpm -Uhv megacli-2.00.12-1.2.2.i386.rpm
> Preparing... ########################################### [100%]
> 1:megacli ########################################### [100%]
>
> # rpm -Uhv megacli-2.00.12-1.2.2.x86_64.rpm
> Preparing... ########################################### [100%]
> 1:megacli ########################################### [100%]
>
> # rpm -q --last megacli
> megacli-2.00.12-1.2.2 Tue 02 Dec 2008 03:59:11 PM GMT
> megacli-2.00.12-1.2.2 Tue 02 Dec 2008 03:59:05 PM GMT
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best regards
q#
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