Fedora 11 Hard-coded i386 in .spec Needs Fixing

Michael Schwendt mschwendt at gmail.com
Mon Mar 2 09:14:40 UTC 2009


On Mon, 2 Mar 2009 09:49:40 +0100, Nicolas wrote:

> > On Mon, 02 Mar 2009 08:47:21 +0100, Oliver wrote:
> >
> >> Hi!
> >>
> >> Please note, that in most cases it would be even better to use
> >> ExcludeArch and explicit exclude arches where you *KNOW* your package
> >> doesn't work.
> >
> >> > ##### ipw2100-firmware.spec
> >> > ExclusiveArch: noarch i386 x86_64
> >
> >> > ##### ipw2200-firmware.spec
> >> > ExclusiveArch: noarch i386 x86_64
> >
> > These two are weird because of the "noarch" in there.
> That was because hardware only exist for %{ix86} (and eventually x86_64 ?!),
> so that would have prevented them to be in the ppc repository.

Actually, it is a noarch build, which is published only in the i386
and x86_64 repos. (The spec contains a comment.)




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