Broken dependencies in Fedora 9 - 2008-11-14

[David Huff]

Matthew Woehlke wrote:
> Michael Schwendt wrote:
>> On Fri, 14 Nov 2008 14:45:57 -0500, David Huff wrote:
>>
>>> Michael Schwendt wrote:
>>>> Broken packages in fedora-updates-testing-9-ppc64:
>>>>
>>>>     appliance-tools-002.6-1.fc9.noarch  requires  qemu-img
>>> To address this I added "ExclusiveArch: %{ix86} x86_64 ppc alpha 
>>> sparc armv4l noarch", to the spec [1] which matches the qemu 
>>> package.  I was told that this would prevent the compose tools form 
>>> adding the appliance-tools rpm to the ppc64 tree.
>>
>> Why not "ExcludeArch: ppc64"?
> 
> Just to offer an outside perspective... IMO ExcludeArch makes sense when 
> a package is generically expected to work, but is known to have problems 
> on specific architectures (i.e. not working is the exception, not the 
> rule). For things like qemu (or valgrind, to give another example) that 
> are highly arch-specific, it makes more sense to list the arches that 
> are supported, even if that results in a longer list.
> 

either way, it was my understanding that both ExclusinveArch and 
ExcludeArch would work, ie the compose tools will check the srpm and not 
include the package in a tree if specified in either of these feilds.

Im not sure if switching form ExclusinveArch to ExcludeArch will fix the 
issue at had.

Any comments, as I would like to run a new build to try and resolve this 
issue.

-D