On Tue, Jul 29, 2003, Conrad Steenberg wrote:
> I'm trying to build a package consisting only of
> architecture-independent files, but need some info on package naming:
>
> When built with a BuildArch: noarch, the package gets named e.g.
> mypackage-1.2.3-1.noarch-linux2.4-oo.rpm
>
> Is there a way to let the package be named
> mypackage-1.2.3-1.noarch.rpm or even mypackage-1.2.3-1.noarch-oo.rpm ?
>
> The package clearly has nothing to do with Linux or being built in
> /opt/openpkg.
There is a technical and an organisational answer:
1. Technically:
RPM originally defines
%_rpmfilename %%{ARCH}/%%{NAME}-%%{VERSION}-%%{RELEASE}.%%{ARCH}.rpm
which means that under "BuildArch: noarch" you get binary RPMs
named like mypackage-1.2.3-1.noarch.rpm. Because OpenPKG is a
cross-platform solution (not just cross-architecture!) we redefined
the _rpmfilename to be:
%_rpmfilename %%{NAME}-%%{VERSION}-%%{RELEASE}.%%{ARCH}-%%{OS}-%{id}.rpm
and this way the binary RPMs are named like
mypackage-1.2.3-1.ix86-linux2.4-oo.rpm. And setting the BuildArch
obviously results in mypackage-1.2.3-1.noarch-linux2.4-oo.rpm. So, in
short: in OpenPKG you cannot get mypackage-1.2.3-1.noarch.rpm at all.
But this doesn't matter from our point, because...
2. Organisationally:
OpenPKG by design focuses on source RPMs and the building and
installing directly from them. Binary RPMs are just an intermediate
and temporary result in this approach. From our perspective, they
exist just temporarily on the target machine or on our FTP server
because of bootstrapping and for emergency situations only. Hence we
do not distinguish between architecture independent and dependent
binary packages. Binary RPMs make already too much trouble, so the
OpenPKG project stays out of this business and tries not to make it
more complex than it has to be for us....
Because this issue should not confuse others in the future, I've added
two FAQs points about this now ;-)
http://www.openpkg.org/faq.html#source-focus
http://www.openpkg.org/faq.html#noarch
Ralf S. Engelschall
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www.engelschall.com
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