Le mercredi 27 juillet 2011 à 14:15 +0200, Christiaan Welvaart a écrit : > On Wed, 27 Jul 2011, Michael Scherer wrote: > > > * useless-provides > > > > that's when foo provide foo. There is no case where it would needed. > > AFAIK there are many packages in the i586 repository that are called > libfoo-devel and have a provides libfoo-devel. For x86-64 the packages are > called lib64foo-devel so the rpmlint warning doesn't show up there.
We have some choice : - declare that this is wrong - add a exception for *-devel on that error - add %ifarch in spec. If we follow the policy that amhad proposed, the option 2 is the way to go. -- Michael Scherer
