True. Maybe the scope became unessecary big when this parameter was added. It might have been enough if the plugin would have produced only noarch rpms.
Maybe we should have a review of the capabilities of the plugin and make a list of changes that we should make for next major version where we can require the users to change their configuration (in other words - break backward compatibility). // Rickard On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 7:24 PM, Brett Okken <brett.okken...@gmail.com>wrote: > Even so, consumers of the plugin should, as with all plugins, attempt to > be as independent of build system as possible. The needArch option should > never have existed as a boolean. It should always have been a string value > where the specific value to use was provided explicitly. The fact that the > default value ascertained does not work for every case should serve as > encouragement to loosen the coupling to the buildsystem and configure the > desired value directly. > On May 12, 2013 7:53 AM, "Rickard von Essen" <rickard.von.es...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Since the rpm-plugin can't do anything without rpm-build installed I >> disagree. The rpm-plugin should work under cygwin, but as long as we don't >> have any serious java-only rpm library I don't see any point on trying to >> avoid to depend on rpm. Especially when the result is incorrect. >> >> If we would like to get away from the dependency of the rpm tool we >> should start building an rpm lib. This is something that will require allot >> of time to build and I'm not sure if we will gain much from it. Probably >> it's better to spend time on verifying that it works correctly in cygwin. >> >> Regards >> // Rickard >> >> >> On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 2:09 PM, Brett Okken <brett.okken...@gmail.com>wrote: >> >>> I thought the goal was to become less dependent on the rpm cli so that >>> the plugin could eventually run anywhere (including windows). Both changes >>> proposed here make that more difficult to achieve. >>> On May 4, 2013 11:12 AM, "Rickard von Essen (JIRA)" <j...@codehaus.org> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Rickard von >>>> Essen<https://jira.codehaus.org/secure/ViewProfile.jspa?name=rickard.v.essen>updated >>>> [image: >>>> Bug] MRPM-119 <https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MRPM-119> >>>> *Wrong detection of system >>>> architecture*<https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MRPM-119> >>>> >>>> Updated patch using "rpm -E %{_arch}" to determine the architecture of >>>> the system. >>>> *Change By:* Rickard von >>>> Essen<https://jira.codehaus.org/secure/ViewProfile.jspa?name=rickard.v.essen>(04/May/13 >>>> 11:10 AM) >>>> *Attachment:* MRPM-119_svn-v2.patch This message is >>>> automatically generated by JIRA. >>>> If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA >>>> administrators >>>> For more information on JIRA, see: >>>> http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira >>>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>> To unsubscribe from this list, please visit: >>>> http://xircles.codehaus.org/manage_email >>> >>> >>
