Deploying noarch builds to specific arch's
Andrew Haley
aph at redhat.com
Wed Oct 17 14:59:42 UTC 2007
Deepak Bhole writes:
> * 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.
Indeed. As you said on IRC: it is acceptable Fedora policy to build
noarch with icedtea and ship on all archs. However, although the
policy allows this, the buildsystem does not.
I suggest that we adjust Fedora policy to match what the build system
is capable of.
Andrew.
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