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+ <H1>[Mageia-dev] noarch packages containing binaries should be rejected</H1>
+ <B>Colin Guthrie</B>
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+<PRE>'Twas brillig, and Kamil Rytarowski at 02/04/12 10:26 did gyre and gimble:
+&gt;<i> On 02.04.2012 11:20, Sander Lepik wrote:
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> 02.04.2012 12:04, Kamil Rytarowski kirjutas:
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> But then we have got again 32-bit software marked as noarch
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> (Skype,..). And people seem too lazy to add 1 simple source for it..
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> Since when does get-skype contain such objects or any binary?
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> get-skype won't trigger such warning so i see no problem here.
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> --
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> Sander
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> I'm personally maintaining Full Recall (fullrecall) and following this
+</I>&gt;<i> get-skype rule, to push it into noarch - because people cannot find
+</I>&gt;<i> it... of course I can make a walk around to push the binaries directly
+</I>&gt;<i> from the website... but this isn't needed, since the author allows to
+</I>&gt;<i> redistribute it.
+</I>
+Remember that get-skype is just a downloading script.
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+If it works the same way as get-skype, then it the package itself does
+not *contain* any binaries, but simply downloads them at install time.
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+I'd say this is fair enough. But if it does contain binaries, then it is
+not noarch. I think this is a clear cut definition.
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+The correct fix for this fullrecall package is simply to fix it to build
+under 64 bit.
+
+Col
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