Re: prevent to build packae for ppc

[Paul Howarth <paul city-fan org>]

Frank Büttner wrote:
> Paul Howarth schrieb:
> > On Fri, 2006-06-09 at 01:57 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2006-06-08 at 18:50 +0200, Frank Büttner wrote:
> > > > Hello I have an package, with I know only work on x86.
> > > > So I put an
> > > > ExcludeArch:    ppc 
> > > You need to file a bug if you do that, and make it block the 'Extras
> > > ExcludeArch PPC' bug.
> > If if it really "only works on x86", shouldn't it be "ExclusiveArch" to
> > that and not just "ExcludeArch PPC"?
> >
> > Paul.
> So long Fedora only support PPC and x86 I think it doesn't matter.
> Are there plains to support more systems?

Some people rebuild Extras packages for other distributions/hardware. 
For instance, there is Aurora Linux for sparc, which is based on Fedora. 
There are probably people doing the same for Itanium.

> When somebody with an PPC system an the hardware for the cyberjack
> package can tell me that the kernel contains the module then I can
> remove the entry. But until the question is resolved I think it is
> cleaner do "disable" the build on ppc.

Can't you just download a ppc kernel rpm and use "rpm -qlp 
kernel-xxx.ppc.rpm" to see if the module is included?

Paul.