R.I.P. Deaddog wrote:
>On Fri, 1 Jun 2001, Stefan van der Eijk wrote:
>
>>I noticed that BuildRequires: has no effect on "BuildArch: noarch"
>>packages. When I comment out the "BuildArch: noarch", then the
>>BuildRequires are honored by rpm, otherwise rpm just starts building and
>>ignores the BuildRequires.
>>
>
>Not only that, I found other problems too. Seems all global variables
>after "BuildArch: noarch" is ignored. I'll try to illustrate it below:
>
>[........]
>BuildArch : noarch
>Source : some-software.tar.bz2
>Patch : some-software.patch.bz2
>[........]
>
>Though source rpm installs correctly, but when doing a 'rpm --rmsource',
>those sources and patches refuses to be removed.
>
thanks!! I think I can now work round the problem for this particular
package. It would be nice if this was fixed in rpm.
Stefan
