[Fedora-packaging] To noarch or arch for arch specific script packages?

Stephen John Smoogen smooge at gmail.com
Wed Jul 12 16:32:12 UTC 2006


On 7/12/06, Jesse Keating <jkeating at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday 12 July 2006 06:14, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> > Else it would be abuse of tags. The only vaguely valid case is combining
> > BuildArch noarch and ExcludeArch, which is like saying "by nature, the
> > package contents are arch-independent, but we know that there is a problem
> > on the N excluded archs".
>
> How far do you take this though?
>
> ExcludeArch: ppc ppc64 s390 s390x alpha sparc sparc64 ia64 arm .....
>

If you have over 3 excluded architectures, you are arch specific.

It is an arbitrary rule.. but sounds good to me.


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Stephen J Smoogen.
CSIRT/Linux System Administrator




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