[EPEL-devel] Help understanding failing Koji build

[Till Maas]

On Sat, May 09, 2015 at 01:36:09AM -0400, Taylor Braun-Jones wrote:

> https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org//work/tasks/4419/9694419/root.log
> 
> ...
> DEBUG util.py:388:  Getting requirements for ceres-solver-1.10.0-4.el6.src
> DEBUG util.py:388:   --> cmake28-2.8.11.2-1.el6.ppc64
> DEBUG util.py:388:   --> eigen3-devel-3.2.3-1.el6.noarch
> DEBUG util.py:388:  Error: No Package found for suitesparse-devel >= 3.4.0-9
> DEBUG util.py:499:  Child return code was: 1
> 
> 
> I'm actually not clear how Koji/mock do ppc64 builds at all since CentOS
> does not exist for ppc64.

koji builds against RHEL. RHEL does not contain every package in every
arch. suitesparse is not built for PPC64 in RHEL. Therefor you need to
exclude ppc64 als arch in your package for EPEL or rebuild the
suitesparse RHEL package as described here:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL:Packaging#Limited_Arch_Packages

Regards
Till