rpms/ocsinventory-client/devel ocsinventory-client.spec, 1.7, 1.8

[Dennis Gilmore]

Once upon a time Friday 04 May 2007, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-04-09 at 01:34 -0400, Remi Collet wrote:
> > +# This requires dmidecode (at run time) which is only available on x86.
> > +ExcludeArch: ppc ppc64 s390 s390x ia64

a better solution for the case where someting is x86 only is to use
ExclusiveArch %{ix86} x86_64
This then will work for people that build extras for non supported archs like 
sparc :)
 
> To use ExcludeArch, you MUST have a bug filed an on the
> FE-ExcludeArch-ppc tracker (and FE-ExcludeArch-ppc64 now too, I
> suppose).
>
> But the correct fix in this case is to make the use of dmidecode
> optional, and perhaps to look elsewhere for the information you wanted
> from it. Just disabling an architecture is the packagemonkey approach.
> Fedora needs _maintainers_ not packagemonkeys.
support should be added for getting the info from OF.  there is a osx version 
of the client written in php

Dennis