[Thincrust-devel] unresolved deps on ppc64

[Bryan Kearney]

David Huff wrote:
> Bryan Kearney wrote:
>> 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
>>
> 
> Since we already have an noarch RPM in F-9 and F-10 we would have to 
> deprecate it and introduce the arch specific RPM's.  My thinking is that 
> this would just be easier.  However I am open to suggestions here.

Lets test how painful of a migation process this is.

-- bk