rpms/firmware-addon-dell/EL-4 .cvsignore, 1.2, 1.3 firmware-addon-dell.spec, 1.1, 1.2 sources, 1.2, 1.3

Dennis Gilmore dennis at ausil.us
Fri Mar 30 17:32:33 UTC 2007


On Friday 30 March 2007 12:13:40 pm Michael E Brown wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 12:29:31AM -0500, Dennis Gilmore wrote:
> > Once upon a time Friday 30 March 2007, Michael E Brown wrote:
> > > Author: mebrown
> > >
> > > +# Dell only sells Intel-compat systems, so this package doesnt make
> > > much sense +# on, eg. PPC.  Also, we rely on libsmbios, which is only
> > > avail on Intel-compat +ExcludeArch: ppc ppc64 s390
> >
> > Can I suggest you use ExclusiveArch: %{ix86} x86_64  fedora is built by
> > people for other archs  than those.  with a side effect that these things
> > get built for archs  they should not be built for.
>
> Does not work. Sorry.
>
> Firmware-addon-dell is a noarch package. So if you use "ExclusiveArch:
> ...", it fails to build. The reason I put in the ExcludeArch line was to
> keep the compose scripts from dropping it into the ppc fedora repo. I am
> perfectly happy to add additional excludearch directives if you send me a
> patch.

Then its not a noarch package.  while it does not compile it is arch specific  
and should be treated as such.  


-- 
Dennis Gilmore, RHCE




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