[Mageia-dev] noarch subpackages

[Pascal Terjan]

On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 14:52, Thierry Vignaud
<thierry.vignaud at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 24 February 2011 14:52, Pascal Terjan <pterjan at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi packagers,
>>
>> I have just tested and our build system supports having a noarch
>> subpackage together with arch specific ones.
>> So please, have noarch data/doc packages (expecially for games or
>> other stuff with huge data), this will allow them to not be duplicated
>> on mirrors
>
> err...
> We're already doing for monthes!!!
> It was already supported on Mandriva side before the fork.

Yes but I was not aware of it, so I decided to make an announcement so
that everyone knows
I did not say this is new, just that I tested it

> I've already converted most big -doc subpackages to noarch.

Nice