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

[Michael E Brown <Michael_E_Brown dell com>]

On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 12:44:52PM +0200, Matthias Saou wrote:
> Michael Schwendt wrote :
> 
> > 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?

As explained earlier to me, for each rpm, the push script looks up the
SRPM and checks "ExcludeArch" directives. A hack, to be sure, but
effective enough, if you know about it.
--
Michael