rawhide report: 20091104 changes - excluding noarch packages

[Orion Poplawski]

On 11/04/2009 10:39 AM, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-11-04 at 17:20 +0000, Paul Howarth wrote:
>> So a noarch script package that depends on its arch script interpreter
>> (e.g. all python and perl packages) should be arch packages?
>>
>
> And bash for that matter.
>
> This is a known problem with rpm/koji.  The distinction between "noarch"
> and "arch specific" is a difficult one to draw.  We do have support in
> our compose tools to look up an srpm and determine whether or not a
> noarch rpm has Exclude/ExclusiveArch settings (since that data doesn't
> propagate to the noarch rpm itself).  What we don't have just yet is
> code in koji to detect a noarch build that has Exclude/ExclusiveArch
> settings and avoid sending said build to one of those arches.
>
>

So, I managed to do a build with:

BuildArch: noarch
ExcludeArch: ppc64

If that gets tagged, it will get excluded from the ppc64 repo?

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