Re: Architecture restrictions and arch: all binary packages

2005-06-11 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 07:49:25AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > >> >> For buildds there are 3 mechanisms in place: >> >> 1. no auto list of the buildd >> >> Per buildd setting to avoid packages not suitable for a specific >> buildd (e.g. needs m

Re: Architecture restrictions and arch: all binary packages

2005-06-11 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 07:49:25AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > For buildds there are 3 mechanisms in place: > > 1. no auto list of the buildd > > Per buildd setting to avoid packages not suitable for a specific > buildd (e.g. needs more ram/disk than this buildd has). > > 2. not-for

Re: Architecture restrictions and arch: all binary packages

2005-06-10 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello folks, > > 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 a

Re: Architecture restrictions and arch: all binary packages

2005-06-10 Thread Russ Allbery
Jeroen van Wolffelaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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 thi

Re: Architecture restrictions and arch: all binary packages

2005-06-10 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 01:58:18AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > 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. This is doubtless a bit annoying to the buildd > admins, is a

Re: Architecture restrictions and arch: all binary packages

2005-06-10 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
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 i

Architecture restrictions and arch: all binary packages

2005-06-10 Thread Russ Allbery
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