Re: migration exception for mhap
On 2016-07-24 23:11, Afif Elghraoui wrote:
على الأحد 24 تـمـوز 2016 05:32، كتب Jonathan Wiltshire:
On 2016-07-23 23:14, Afif Elghraoui wrote:
mhap is arch:all. libssw-java contains Java bindings for its C
library
and is not supported on i386. The dependencies are not broken. I hope
this is a clear enough explanation.
Yes, I know all that, but your dependencies are still broken. Your
package is uninstallable on any architecture other than amd64.
I thought arch:all meant that the package doesn't have
architecture-dependent files,
Yes.
not that it's supposed to be usable on
every single one.
It still has to be installable.
Barring porting libssw to i386 or reducing functionality of the package
to remove dependency on libssw, would you prefer that I declare mhap as
arch:any so that it only builds for architectures where it will be
installable? Then we'll have multiple copies of the exact same package
for amd64, kfreebsd-amd64, and x32.
That doesn't help you at all, because it's still uninstallable on
anything that is not amd64.
For performance reasons britney only tests installability on amd64 and
i386 (hence the message), otherwise the list would be much longer.
A package cannot migrate if it is not installable on the test
architectures.
For the purposes of mhap, it is a package for scientific research and
would probably not be usable on i386 even if it could be installed
there. It requires more powerful processors than anything that is i386
that I am aware of (besides am64 CPUs posing as such, but the package
works on x32 anyway).
Maybe you want "arch:any-amd64 x32" then?
If you really want me to jump through this hoop, I will be disabling
some functionality of the mhap package. I'm hoping it won't come to
this.
I don't know to which hoop you refer. Being able to install a package is
a basic criteria for it to be in testing.
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