Re: Fedora Extras Development Build Report

[Ralf Corsepius <rc040203 freenet de>]

On Sun, 2005-05-08 at 10:12 -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-05-08 at 12:13 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> > On Sun, 2005-05-08 at 12:04 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> > > It's how I understood your proposal and how Seth seems to have
> > > implemented the FE build system: ATM, one build failure on one of i386,
> > > x86_64 or ppc prevents building a package for the other architectures
> > > and therefore disqualifies a package from being upgraded.
> > 
> > We need to distinguish between a build failure which is observed by the
> > build system, and the deliberate exclusion of a given architecture by
> > use of ExcludeArch: in the spec file.
> > 
> 
> ExcludeArch, ExclusiveArch and BuildArch are all taken into account by
> the buildsystem. It only builds the packages on the requested archs.

Great - That's good news - This covers build failures.

Who is going to "validate run-time function" of packages, original
package developers and FE package maintainers can't/don't want to test a
package on?

Unleash a package to the public and wait for what's going to happen?

Ralf