On 28 October 2013 at 15:17, Niels Thykier wrote:
| > And R itself already has (and had for ages) this in
| > debian/control::Build-Depends
| > 
| > default-jdk [!arm !hppa !kfreebsd-i386 !kfreebsd-amd64 !hurd-i386 !mips]
| > 
| 
| You would be missing mipsel then. :)

Oops.  We had mips at one point though.  Should I subst or add !mipsel ?
 
| > SO I guess we really only need to trigger a rebuild for rJava -- and 
possibly
| > tell the mips builders to ignore this package as it also has
| > 
| 
| s/mips/mipsel/
| 
| > default-jdk [!arm !hppa !kfreebsd-i386 !kfreebsd-amd64 !hurd-i386 !mips]

Will do.

| > but it should really be skipped on all of these/
| > 
| > Can you remind how I do that again?
| > 
| > Dirk
| > 
| 
| Set the Architecture field to list only acceptable architectures should
| do.  From there, the buildds should mark it as "Auto-Not-For-Us" and
| ignore it.  Mind you, you still have to file a removal bug for binaries
| on architectures that (as a consequence) will no longer be built.

I never liked that as I would miss 'new' Architectures that are added.  But I
can of course respond quickly to bug reports suggesting to add these.

Maybe I should try this...

|   An alternative is to Build-Depend on a package that is available on
| exactly the architectures your package supports[1].  Again, it would
| still need the removal bug, but that is another possibility.
| 
| ~Niels
| 
| [1] This makes for e.g. Build-Depends on an -dev package only available
| on certain architectures.  I am not certain that it makes sense in this
| particular case.

Right.

Thanks!

Dirk
 

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Dirk Eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org | http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com


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