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

[Josh Boyer]

On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 3:36 PM, Dan Horák <dan at danny.cz> wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Aug 2013 14:20:12 -0500
> Andrew McNabb <amcnabb at mcnabbs.org> 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.
>>
>> What's the right way to deal with this situation?  Is it possible to
>> block the noarch package from the ARM architecture?
>
> the really dirty workaround is to try building so many times until a x86
> builder is used

The end solution to this is to actually build all packages on all
arches and not have the secondary arches suck down completed builds
from primary koji.  I realize this would increase the build load on
those arches significantly, but it would catch these issues.

josh