http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/TomCallaway/SecondaryArchitectures
David Woodhouse
dwmw2 at infradead.org
Wed Jul 11 19:57:54 UTC 2007
On Wed, 2007-07-11 at 07:02 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
> They stopped because it led to a lot of weird package situations and
> mixed results. It was not a very good situation, it only made
> you /think/ you were moving on correctly when you really weren't and
> should have rebuilt everything with the new version once it was fixed
> anyway instead of keeping going.
You're right to remind us of the problems with this, btw. It's exactly
the kind of hell that Spot's proposal as-is would have us impose on the
secondary architectures. If packages are going to be absent on any given
architecture, that should happen only through a conscious decision on
the part of the maintainer -- not just automatically after a build
failure which is probably going to turn out to be a generic issue when
it's investigated anyway.
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dwmw2
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