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

Andrew McNabb amcnabb at mcnabbs.org
Tue Aug 20 21:14:50 UTC 2013


On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 03:28:13PM -0400, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
> On 08/20/2013 03:20 PM, Andrew McNabb wrote:
> > What's the right way to deal with this situation?  Is it possible
> > to block the noarch package from the ARM architecture?
> 
> Well, you *can* use the ExcludeArch directive, but the obvious
> question to me is: Why is the test failing? If there's a bug in the
> test when run on ARM, can you just patch it to skip that test?

I'm adding ExcludeArch for now (until we get to the root of the
problem).  However, I'm hitting a problem.

Even though I've specified "ExcludeArch: arm", the build system is
building it on an ARM host:
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=5835021

Did I specify the ExcludeArch directive incorrectly?

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