On Tue, 20 Aug 2013 15:43:19 -0400
Josh Boyer <jwboyer(a)fedoraproject.org> wrote:
On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 3:36 PM, Dan Horák <dan(a)danny.cz>
wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Aug 2013 14:20:12 -0500
> Andrew McNabb <amcnabb(a)mcnabbs.org> wrote:
>
>> I maintain the python-pexpect package, which is noarch. Koji is
>> trying to build the Fedora 20 packages on ARM machines, and for
>> some reason, one of the tests is failing. I've opened a report
>> with upstream, but neither the upstream maintainer nor I have
>> access to any ARM machines to figure out what's going on.
>>
>> What's the right way to deal with this situation? Is it possible
>> to block the noarch package from the ARM architecture?
>
> the really dirty workaround is to try building so many times until
> a x86 builder is used
The end solution to this is to actually build all packages on all
arches and not have the secondary arches suck down completed builds
from primary koji. I realize this would increase the build load on
those arches significantly, but it would catch these issues.
I think the ppc and s390x builders are capable of processing the regular
load (rawhide + updates), but they would be the bottleneck for the mass
rebuilds, especially on s390x our resources are limited
Dan