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

[Peter Robinson]

On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 10:14 PM, Andrew McNabb <amcnabb at mcnabbs.org> wrote:

> 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
>

As it's noarch it can be built on any arch.

Peter
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