rpms/firmware-addon-dell/EL-4 .cvsignore, 1.2, 1.3 firmware-addon-dell.spec, 1.1, 1.2 sources, 1.2, 1.3

[Matthias Saou]

Michael Schwendt wrote :

> On Mon, 2 Apr 2007 11:43:58 +0200, Matthias Saou wrote:
> 
> > Michael E Brown wrote :
> > 
> > > > Can I suggest you use ExclusiveArch: %{ix86} x86_64  fedora is built by people 
> > > > for other archs  than those.  with a side effect that these things get built 
> > > > for archs  they should not be built for.
> > > 
> > > Does not work. Sorry.
> > > 
> > > Firmware-addon-dell is a noarch package. So if you use "ExclusiveArch: ...", it
> > > fails to build. The reason I put in the ExcludeArch line was to keep the
> > > compose scripts from dropping it into the ppc fedora repo. I am perfectly happy
> > > to add additional excludearch directives if you send me a patch.
> > 
> > I just realized that I got bitten by this too! The ipw*firmware
> > packages I maintain have :
> > 
> > BuildArch: noarch
> > # This is so that the noarch packages only appears for these archs
> > ExclusiveArch: noarch i386 x86_64
> > 
> > And I thought that the buildsystem would get things right, but it seems
> > like it doesn't since I just saw that they were available for ppc.
> > Maybe it's just a matter of fixing the push script so that it checks
> > the exclusivearchs before it checks if the package is noarch (just a
> > wild guess).
> 
> In your case, the buildsys has built a noarch rpm. Nothing in the noarch
> rpm package says that it must not be installed on ppc. Making the push script
> parse spec files sounds very wrong to me.
> 
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2007-March/msg01831.html

I'm somewhat confused. It seems that using "ExcludeArch: ppc" would
solve my problem, but how does the push script get it right in that
case without parsing the spec file?

Matthias

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