Preventing a noarch package from entering certain repos
Ville Skyttä
ville.skytta at iki.fi
Thu Jun 2 15:41:06 UTC 2005
Again, stuff related to uqm-content:
uqm is not 64-bit clean, so I've excluded 64-bit archs in it. So far so
good. But what about uqm-content? It's noarch, and really _is_ noarch
data, but it does not make much sense to ship it in the x86_64 repo
while the main uqm package isn't there.
So, I can leave uqm-content as noarch, and add ExcludeArchs there too.
But that will only prevent building the package on the excluded archs,
and since I gather noarchs are only built on i386 and then copied over
to others, this wouldn't prevent it from entering the x86_64 repo again
later.
On the other hand, I can remove noarch, but it feels incorrect, because
the data _is_ architecture independent. And by doing that the resulting
packages could no longer be hardlinked in the repo, and we're talking
about a couple of hundreds of megabytes here.
Or I can leave them as-is, and just ask repository maintainers to remove
them from the x86_64 repo and not to copy it there again until further
notice.
What do you think would be the best approach?
More information about the fedora-extras-list
mailing list