[Fedora-packaging] ExclusiveArch and dependencies

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 12:38:14AM +0100, Björn Persson wrote:
> I have a question regarding the use of ExclusiveArch.
>
> At
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures#ExcludeArch_.26_ExclusiveArch
> it says that only packages which are exclusively
> architecture-specific should use ExclusiveArch. Is it appropriate to
> extend this to packages which aren't architecture-specific
> themselves, but which depend on a package that is available only on
> some architectures?

Common sense says it's fine.

Adding ExclusiveArch is what we do for OCaml packages (mainly because
I don't have time or access to S/390 etc to get the bytecode compiler
working properly).

Rich.

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