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

Andrew McNabb amcnabb at mcnabbs.org
Tue Aug 20 19:55:57 UTC 2013


On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 03:32:37PM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
> 
> 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.

The same package works fine on Fedora 19, so I'm pretty sure it's
ARM-related.  Is there a way I can do a scratch build for x86_64 on
Fedora 20 just to make sure that it's ARM-related?

> > 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. :)

I suspected as much. :)

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