Re: Excluding a single arch on an arch: any

[Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>]

* Reinhard Tartler [Sun, 12 Aug 2007 21:27:50 +0200]:

> "Wesley J. Landaker" <wjl@icecavern.net> writes:

> > Is is possible to make the equivalent of an Architecture: any package except 
> > that it excludes one or two specific architectures? 

> I think the best you can do is to write a check for that specific
> architecture in the package's preinst script, and abort the installation
> if it is being installed on that 'blacklisted' architecture.

Uuh, that doesn't sound right. The correct thing to do would be to
ensure the package does not build on the broken architectures, and
remove the binaries from unstable. To do the former, and since the point
is not having to list all possible architectures in the Architecture
field, one can do in debian/rules:

    DEB_HOST_ARCH ?= $(shell dpkg-architecture -qDEB_HOST_ARCH)

    configure:
	    test "$(DEB_HOST_ARCH)" != "ia64"

Cheers,

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