On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 01:58:18AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Hello folks, > > I'm working on the next release of the OpenAFS packages, and I'd really > like to resolve a long-standing annoyance to the buildds that the package > at present currently causes. But I'm not sure the best way to do it. > > Of the architectures that Debian supports, OpenAFS does not support arm, > m68k, mips, or mipsel. It's unlikely that it will in the forseeable > future; it requires a kernel component and no one seems to be working on > ports.
(...) > Right now, therefore, the buildds for those four platforms try to build > every OpenAFS release, install all its dependencies, and then error out in > the configure script. So your package correctly fails to build on unsupported architectures. The only problem is wasting buildd time on it -- in this case, the correct course of action would be to ask the Packages-arch-specific[1] file maintainers to include this fact. > There was one suggestion in the bug log from Goswin von Brederlow: > > | 1. Build-Depend/Conflict on the architecture > | > | Build-Depends: type-handling > | Build-Conflicts: mips, mipsel, ia64 > | > | That way an attempt to build on an unsuported architecture will fail > | with a Build-Conflict. > > but in addition to seeming like kind of a hack, I'm not sure that this > will do anything other than produce a better error message. I'd certainly > like to produce a better error message, and will do that if all else fails > (although I'm not sure this is the best mechanism to do so), but isn't > there any way to tag the package so that the buildds won't even try? Yes, see above -- and indeed this is a terrible hack I certainly won't suggest -- your package fails with a reasonably sensible error message (kernel modules not supported) now, rather than just dependency issues which make it unclear at first for potential what type of porting issue is over here. --Jeroen [1] http://cvs.debian.org/srcdep/Packages-arch-specific?rev=HEAD&cvsroot=dak&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] (also for Jabber & MSN; ICQ: 33944357) http://Jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
