[Thincrust-devel] unresolved deps on ppc64

[Bryan Kearney]

David Huff wrote:
> David Huff wrote:
>> David Huff wrote:
>>> Problem with appliance-tools
>>>
>>> Appliance-tools relays on qemu-img to convert the disk format of an 
>>> appliance, however it looks like qemu is not included on ppc64.  
>>> Since applaince-tools is noarch I don't think that I can  define the 
>>> valid arches in the spec file with ExclusiveArch.
>>>
>>> I would like to keep the package noarch if passable any suggestions?
>>>
>>> -D
>>>
>> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F9/FEDORA-2008-8868
> 
> 
> What I am going to do is take out the "requires: qemu-img" in the spec 
> and add logic to appliance-cretor that checks for the qemu-img rpm when 
> you used the --format option.  If its not installed it will exit with a 
> error which also states that qemu is not available on ppc64.

So.. the tools you build on a arch-specific (livecd-tools, qemu). Why 
not be arch specific in the appliance-tools?

-- bk