Re: Easy way to exclude an arch from a package?

[Gordon Sadler <gbsadler1@lcisp.com>]

On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 04:57:56PM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I may just be looking in the wrong places in the developers' documentation, in
> which case I apologize in advance.  I'm adopting a multi-binary package, one
> of whose binary packages won't build on the alpha architecture currently due
> to a compiler problem.  I'd like to build the other packages (which all work
> fine) for the Alpha, so that they can be uploaded to unstable, and I'd like to
> explicitly exclude Alpha for that package so that nothing tries to build it
> until I can find a fix.
> 
> Is there a way to say 'all except alpha' on the Architecture: line in
> debian/control?  Or do I need to list out all the architectures I /do/ want to
> build it on?
> 
What about this in the control file:
Package: xxx
Architecture: any [!alpha]

-- 
Gordon Sadler