incoming: dependency warnings

Paul Nasrat pnasrat at redhat.com
Sat Jul 2 12:37:32 UTC 2005


On Fri, 2005-07-01 at 23:52 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-07-01 at 17:43 -0400, Paul Nasrat wrote:
> > Is there anyway to register exceptions, - eg for secondary archs such
> > as ppc64 which is all I'm getting build dep failures on?
> 
> We do a ppc64 compose which is expected to work, don't we? We don't ever
> actually _ship_ it but it's still expected to be complete, surely? Why
> are dependency failures expected?

Eg - yaboot is ppc32 only - as OF only supports booting 32bit ELF IIRC. 

ppc64-utils requires yaboot
ppc64-utils in the ppc64 tree has a broken dep

Therefore in the ppc64 only tree which doesn't have any biarch magic
ppc64-utils will always be seen as broken.

Paul




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