Deploying noarch builds to specific arch's

[Deepak Bhole]

* Jesse Keating <jkeating at redhat.com> [2007-10-17 10:25]:
> On Wed, 17 Oct 2007 10:07:49 -0400
> Deepak Bhole <dbhole at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > The problem is that IcedTea is only available on x86/x86_64. Since my
> > package is noarch, koji randomly distributes it between
> > ppc/x86/x86_64, and when it goes to ppc, the build fails.
> > 
> > While IcedTea is not a strong requirement for checkstyle, this problem
> > will be encountered by any package that is to be built with IcedTea..
> 
> ExclusiveArch: i386 x86_64  in the spec, with loud comments about the
> ExclusiveArch being there to match the arches where IcedTea is
> available, and needs to be updated when IcedTea hits more arches.
> 

But that would create arch specific packages, which would not get
shipped on ppc. Packages built with icedtea can run on ppc with gcj in
interpreted mode.

Deepak

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> Jesse Keating
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