On Monday, 05 September 2022 at 21:42, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> I have a downstream patch[0] which -- I don't really understand why --
> breaks riscv64 builds but is necessary for primary Fedora arches.  Is
> it correct to do:
> 
>   %ifnarch riscv64
>   Patch123: downstream.patch
>   %endif
> 
> given that the package uses %autosetup and therefore doesn't have
> explicit %patch lines.
> 
> I think this means that if I build the SRPM on riscv64 then the
> downstream patch wouldn't be included, meaning that SRPM would then
> fail to build on other arches.  In this particular case that doesn't
> matter, but it feels wrong.  Is there a recommended way to do this
> (apart from fixing the patch)?

Change %autosetup to plain %setup and apply the patch conditionally
instead of conditionally including it in the SRPM.

Regards,
Dominik
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