[Yum] Noarch vs i386

Konstantin Riabitsev icon at phy.duke.edu
Fri Nov 7 15:07:31 UTC 2003


Hello:

Python programs shouldn't really be .noarch, as compiled python bytecode
isn't exactly cross-platform. In case of yum this is particularly
noticeable, as it doesn't ship .py files, only .pyc. When installed on,
say, linux ppc, yum RPMs provided on the download site reportedly don't
work because python cannot run .pyc files due to endianness issues.

Cheers,
-- 
Konstantin ("Icon") Riabitsev
Duke University Physics Sysadmin
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