Broken dependencies in Fedora 11 - 2009-08-20

[Michael Schwendt]

On Thu, 20 Aug 2009 07:18:50 -0400, Josh wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 10:19:39AM +0100, Peter Robinson wrote:
> >On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 10:14 AM, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> >> ======================================================================
> >> The results in this summary consider Test Updates!
> >> ======================================================================
> >>
> >> Summary of broken packages (by src.rpm name):
> >>
> >>    beagle
> >>    bmpx
> >>    clipsmm
> >>    f-spot
> >>    fedora-business-cards
> >>    kdeedu
> >>    openmpi
> >>    openvrml
> >>    ppl
> >>    R-RScaLAPACK
> >>    rubygem-main
> >>    rubygem-rails
> >>    scheme2js
> >>    tomboy
> >
> >Is it just me or are there some packages that seem to be eternally on
> >this list? beage/f-spot/tomboy never seem to go anywhere.
> 
> They're eternally broken on ppc64.  Mostly due to Mono being broken on ppc64.

Really? Then why has somebody added ppc64 to the ExclusiveArch list
for many but not all of the Mono packages? I think that spec files
from F-12 devel have been copied to F-11 without making sure that
Mono has been built for ppc64 there.