Re: Extras' plague-server and %{ix86}

[Quentin Spencer <qspencer ieee org>]

Roozbeh Pournader wrote:

> We are having a discussion on 
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=176434
>
> about whether or not the Extras' plague-server will build i686,
> i586, ... versions of a package if the ExclusiveArch passed to it is
> %{ix86}, which according to my /usr/lib/rpm/macros will expand to the
> following:
>
>   i386 i486 i586 i686 pentium3 pentium4 athlon
>
> It seems that Thorsten's plague-server actually builds an i686 version
> of the package, while some packages in extras (like
> athcool-0.3.11-3.fc5) use the %{ix86} macro and were only built as i386
> in extras.
>
> Would someone with more knowledge of Extras' plague-server enlighten us?
>  

I would like to add an additional question to this: I have been 
packaging atlas with separate sub-packages: atlas-sse atlas-sse2, etc. I 
never tried to make atlas packages for each subarch because I thought 
the build system wasn't capable. Has that changed?

-Quentin