How to build noarch package on only certain architectures?

[Kevin Fenzi]

On Sun, 15 May 2011 16:40:50 -0700
Eric Smith <eric at brouhaha.com> wrote:

> I'm trying to build Clapham for EPEL6.  Clapham is a noarch package,
> but it depends on Batik, which is ExclusiveArch: i686 x86_64.  When I 
> submitted a build with koji, it failed to build for ppc and ppc64 due
> to the missing dependency.
> 
> I tried adding the same ExclusiveArch to Clapham.  That causes errors 
> from rpm and koji.
> 
> Now I've tried adding ExcludeArch: ppc ppc64 s390 s390x.  Koji still 
> tries to build it for ppc64, and it still fails due to the missing 
> dependency.
> 
> 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. 

I tried various other things, none of which worked. ;( 

kevin
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