[Thincrust-devel] unresolved deps on ppc64

[David Huff]

Bryan Kearney wrote:
> David Huff wrote:
>> David Huff wrote:
>>> David Huff wrote:
>>>> Problem with appliance-tools
>>>>
>>>> Appliance-tools relays on qemu-img to convert the disk format of an 
>>>> appliance, however it looks like qemu is not included on ppc64.  
>>>> Since applaince-tools is noarch I don't think that I can  define the 
>>>> valid arches in the spec file with ExclusiveArch.
>>>>
>>>> I would like to keep the package noarch if passable any suggestions?
>>>>
>>>> -D
>>>>
>>> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F9/FEDORA-2008-8868
>>
>>
>> What I am going to do is take out the "requires: qemu-img" in the spec 
>> and add logic to appliance-cretor that checks for the qemu-img rpm 
>> when you used the --format option.  If its not installed it will exit 
>> with a error which also states that qemu is not available on ppc64.
> 
> So.. the tools you build on a arch-specific (livecd-tools, qemu). Why 
> not be arch specific in the appliance-tools?
> 
> -- bk
> 

Since we already have an noarch RPM in F-9 and F-10 we would have to 
deprecate it and introduce the arch specific RPM's.  My thinking is that 
this would just be easier.  However I am open to suggestions here.

-D