On Wed, 04 Sep 2013 08:55:36 -0400
Stephen Gallagher <sgallagh(a)redhat.com> wrote:
> I could change perl-Alien-ROOT from noarch to architecture
> specific, but that's cheating and more seriously it just shifts the
> problem in the reverese dependency hierarchy to next level (i.e. I
> would get broken dependency for packages requiring
> perl-Alien-ROOT).
This is a valid approach.
> How does Fedora infrastracture deal with this issue?
>
Add the following line to perl-Alien-ROOT's specfile:
ExcludeArch: %{arm}
That's not enough, since that'll break upgrades. You'll have to make
some package on arm obsolete perl-Alien-ROOT.
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Susi Lehtola
Fedora Project Contributor
jussilehtola(a)fedoraproject.org