Re: EPEL-6 Plan of attack

["Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones redhat com>]

On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 05:38:50PM -0500, Dennis Gilmore wrote:
> On Tuesday 16 March 2010 12:38:39 pm Dennis Gilmore wrote:
> > Hi All,
> > 
> > I wanted to put out there the plan for EL-6 branching and building.
> > 
> 
> Another thing that we need to work out is what architectures will be 
> supported. 
> 
> we can build i686, x86_64, ppc and ppc64.  We could also likely build s390 and 
> s390x.  though that would mean we would need to mirror more rhel arches.  as 
> well access to the Z series builders would be more limited.

Some RHEL 6 packages will only be built/supported on particular archs.
The ones I know about:

  kvm etc                  x86_64
  ocaml, ocaml-*           %{ix86}, x86_64
  libguestfs, virt-v2v etc x86_64

Will it be possible to build these in EPEL 6 on the other
architectures?

Rich.

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