This is where package dependencies come in. If the package depends on a hardware support for VFP, then the system needs to have a corresponding provide or it won't install.
(Of course people can use --nodeps.. but similarly they can use --ignorearch.) In RPM 4.4.x ARCH implies certain hardware dependencies, but no explicit dependency exists. This was the reason for my suggestion. --Mark -----Original Message----- From: Rabeeh Khoury [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tue 1/15/2008 9:19 AM To: Hatle, Mark; Lennert Buytenhek Cc: rpm-maint@lists.rpm.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [PATCH,RFC] arm: add support for VFP architectures > > > The problem with that would be that RPM package file names for VFP > > and non-VFP packages would be identical. > > Sure, but remember rpm package file names don't actually mean anything > other then the name of the file. :) > > Just a suggestion. IMHO the same as you forbid installing PPC package on i386; you should forbid installing an ARM VFP package on an ARM system without VFP. If you don't mark that package architecturally to be different than the soft-float version then mistakes are unavoidable.
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