[EPEL-devel] Re: Missing ocaml-findlib on ppc64 (was: Re: ocaml packages for epel7)

[Kevin Fenzi]

On Mon, 19 Sep 2016 08:12:40 -0400
jason taylor <jtfas90(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:

>  For future reference, how does one check to see the status of a
>  package (e.g. whether or not it's actually shipped by RHEL)? 
Only for those channels EPEL cares about you can see: 

https://infrastructure.fedoraproject.org/repo/json/

>  > So, we could do limited arch packages here: 
>  > 
>  > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL:Packaging#Limited_Arch_Packages
>  > 
>  > but it's a pretty big pain. It's either that or just exclude
>  > ppc. ;( 
>  
>  So what's the recommended course of action? ocaml-findlib is a
>  dependency for another package we are attempting to get into EPEL, so
>  I would have to excludearch for that one too.  
Yep. Either excludearch them all or create limited arch packages. There
aren't any other options I am aware of. 

kevin