Fwd: Help specifying arch through 'requires' in rpm .spec

[Panu Matilainen]

On Wed, 29 Sep 2010, FlorianFesti wrote:

> On 09/29/2010 04:16 AM, Oliver von Behr Kuster wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I have x86_64 machines running RHEL5 and am trying to install snoopy 
>> through the customized package handling machine configurations.
>> 
>> Since the machines are 32bit compatible, snoopy.i386 needs to be installed 
>> also.
>> 
>> So I've tried the following:
>> 
>> Requires: snoopy(i386)
> This should work on newer versions of rpm (actually on packages built with 
> newer versions).

Nope, the syntax is somewhat different (literal arch is not involved). See 
http://rpm.org/wiki/PackagerDocs/ArchDependencies for the details. But 
yeah, that wont help on RHEL 5.

> On RHEL 5 you can try to work around by requiring files that 
> are unique to both archs - typically files in /usr/lib(64)?

Yup. That, or if you're building your own packages of course nothing 
prevents you from adding extra per-arch provide-require pairs to them.

 	- Panu -