New tracker bugs for the use of ExcludeArchs in packages

Hans de Goede j.w.r.degoede at hhs.nl
Sun Jan 29 12:32:23 UTC 2006



Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Sorry for crossposting -- replies please only to fedora-extras-list.
> tia!
> 
> Just FYI, I created several new tracker bugs:
> 
> 179258 - FE-ExcludeArch-x86
> 179259 - FE-ExcludeArch-x64
> 179260 - FE-ExcludeArch-PPC 
> 
> How should they get used? Simple: If you have a packages that uses 
> ExcludeArch or ExclusiveArch to exclude some architectures from the
> build you need to file a separate bug for them [*1]. This bug should be
> marked as blocking the corresponding tracker bug(s) listed above -- this
> simplifies tracking such issues for other people interested in these
> archs that might want to take a look into the problem and fix it.
> 

What if the ExclusiveArch is not a bug but a feature, for example say a 
userspace support tools for certain hardware only found on certain 
archs? Then there is no problem to fix, should one then still file bugs?

Regards,

Hans




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