What to do with a noarch package that fails to build on ARM

[Matthew Miller]

On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 02:20:12PM -0500, Andrew McNabb wrote:
> I maintain the python-pexpect package, which is noarch.  Koji is trying
> to build the Fedora 20 packages on ARM machines, and for some reason,
> one of the tests is failing.  I've opened a report with upstream, but
> neither the upstream maintainer nor I have access to any ARM machines to
> figure out what's going on.

Are you *sure* that this is an ARM-related failure? The ARM builders are
picking up a lot of load for noarch builds, and it may just be a coincidence
that the test fails.

> What's the right way to deal with this situation?  Is it possible to
> block the noarch package from the ARM architecture?

That's definitely not the right way. :)

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