On Sat, Jul 15, 2023 at 05:11:02PM +0200, Nils Philippsen wrote:
> On Fri, 2023-07-14 at 13:30 +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > For some virt packages we need to combine 2 or 3 of:
> >
> > ExclusiveArch: %{kernel_arches}
> > ExclusiveArch: %{qemu_sysemu_host_arches} # [1]
> > ExclusiveArch: %{ocaml_native_compiler}
> >
> > to mean only compile on the intersection of these arches. If you
> > have
> > multiple ExclusiveArch lines then RPM seems to do the union of arches
> > which is the opposite of what anyone would want.
>
> I beg to differ. When a tag in RPM can have multiple items (e.g.
> Provides, (Build)Requires), this …:
>
> Tag: item1 item2 item3
>
> … is consistently equivalent to this:
>
> Tag: item1
> Tag: item2
> Tag: item3
>
> To have ExclusiveArch behave differently would be surprising – nobody
> (😉) would read this and expect the effective list of arches the
> package would be built for to be empty:
>
> ExclusiveArch: x86_64
> ExclusiveArch: s390x
> ExclusiveArch: aarch64
>
> > Dan Berrange came up with a clever way to do it though ...
> >
> > %ifnarch %{kernel_arches}
> > ExcludeArch: %{_arch}
> > %endif
> > %ifnarch %{qemu_sysemu_host_arches}
> > ExcludeArch: %{_arch}
> > %endif
> >
> > But this makes my head hurt. Is there a better way or could RPM
> > provide explicit union and intersection operators?
>
> I think this would be a good approach.
It is certainly easier to read and understand than using a LUA script
to get to implement variable intersection for ExclusiveArch !
With regards,
Daniel
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