[Mageia-dev] Weird boost subpackage (lib64 in i586)

Sun Jul 22 03:29:16 CEST 2012

In the boost spec, for example this one:
+http://svnweb.mageia.org/packages/updates/1/boost/current/SPECS/boost.spec?revision=265078&view=markup
+
+There is this definition:
+%define libnamedevel %mklibname boost -d
+
+And then @ line 98 we have:
+%package -n     %{libnamedevel}-doc
+Summary:        The libraries and headers needed for Boost development
+Group:          Development/C++
+Provides:       %{name}-devel-doc = %{version}-%{release}
+Conflicts:      %{_lib}boost-devel < 1.41.0
+BuildArch: noarch
+
+This is a documentation package, not a library package, so it shouldn't be using a mklibname name in the name, right?  This causes a package 
+by the following name to appear on the *i586* mirrors:
+lib64boost-devel-doc
+
+I guess that's because it's noarch, so it's only generated on one arch (x86_64 apparently) and used on all arches.
+
+Shouldn't the package actually be named %{name}-devel-doc instead of just providing it?
+
+