On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 09:33:51AM -0400, Josh Boyer wrote:
On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 9:28 AM, Kevin Fenzi <kevin(a)scrye.com>
wrote:
>> Is there some other way to add a noarch package that doesn't build on
>> some architectures?
>
> Sadly this is a nasty situation. (I'm in the same boat with munin).
>
> There are 2 answers, neither ideal (I'd love to hear better):
>
> 1. Make your package archfull. Add ExcludeArch/ExclusiveArch.
>
> 2. Leave it noarch and ExcludeArch: ppc64, then try and keep rebuilding
> it until you hit a non ppc builder.
3. See if you can modify the package to do runtime determinism of
whether the dependency is there, and only use that functionality if
it's present. Personally I think that if that can't be done, then
option 1 is the right way to go.
4. Post a patch to fix RPM.
This is a bug or shortcoming in RPM. It affected some mingw32
packages as well IIRC -- they are noarch and can be built anywhere,
but we wanted to %check them using wine which only runs on i386.
Rich.
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