Changelog 3/5/2009 New in Version 4.76.24-3

[Julian Field]

On 06/05/2009 14:31, Eli Wapniarski wrote:
> On Wednesday 06 May 2009 14:11:27 Julian Field wrote:
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>> No, I'm talking about all the RPMs installed by install.sh that are
>> required by MailScanner. Many of these are architecture-independent. If
>> I don't give them a BuildArch and know the BuildArch that it is going to
>> use, how can I possibly know which directory to find them in?
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Sorry, I give up.
> Without the Buildarch parameter, you know where they will be installed because there are defaults.
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> When you specify the Buildarch parameter in the spec file you are overriding the default installation path.
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> x86_64 libraries by default will be installed in /usr/lib64
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> ix86 will by default be installed in /usr/lib
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> These values are not dependant on binary dependancies the are default values.
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> You do not need to know where they will be installed because the defaults will determine that for you.
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> You do not need Buildarch in your specs.
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> /usr/bin is still /usr/bin
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> /bin is still /bin
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> etc.
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> These are the defaul values. The default values and macros can be found in folder /usr/lib/rpm
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> You can see them all by issuing the command
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> rpm --showrc
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> There a heck of alot of them.
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Jules

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