[Mageia-dev] noarch vs. arch

[Pascal Terjan]

On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 03:57, Thomas Spuhler <thomas at btspuhler.com> wrote:
> When upgrading lilypond I noticed that someone else mad the doc package noarch
> to "make the huge doc subpackage be noarch"
>
> 1. What is the advantage of this? We have noarch packages in i586 and x86_64
> anyway

They are hardlinks

> 2. The result wasn't as intended, we now have the arch + noarch package in the
> repos

Yes there is still a bug in the build system, packages switching
between arch/noarch are not deleted