#6184: suitesparse can't be installed in ppc64 el6 buildroots

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#6184: suitesparse can't be installed in ppc64 el6 buildroots
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 Reporter:  rmattes          |       Owner:  rel-eng@…
     Type:  defect           |      Status:  new
Milestone:  Fedora 23 Final  |   Component:  epel
 Keywords:                   |  Blocked By:
 Blocking:                   |
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 I'm running into trouble building GeographicLib in epel6.  GeographicLib
 requires octave, which in turn requires suitesparse.  It looks like
 suitesparse was in epel for a while, but got absorbed into rhel at some
 point and blocked from the buildroots.  Since centos doesn't provide ppc64
 packages, the ppc64 octave package in epel now has missing dependencies on
 suitesparse libraries and can't be installed in koji.

 What's the best way forward for this issue?  Is it to:
 - Unblock the epel6 suitesparse and make it exclusivearch ppc64?
 - Rebuild all of the dependencies of suitesparse to excludearch ppc64?
 - Make octave-GeographicLib excludearch ppc64 and ignore the issue
 entirely?

 Please advise.

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Ticket URL: <https://fedorahosted.org/rel-eng/ticket/6184>
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