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Re: Excluding a single arch on an arch: any



On Sunday 12 August 2007 13:35:02 Adeodato Simó wrote:
> * 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. 

Won't this then prevent the package from migrating to testing, because it's 
arch: any, but failing to build on a release arch?

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