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Re: How to specify architectures *not* to be built?



At 16:32 +0200 8/9/02, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
>On Fri, Aug 09, 2002 at 04:08:46PM +0200, Andreas Rottmann wrote:
>
>> I have one package (radvd) that builds only on Linux (and the *BSDs),
>> but not on the Hurd. How dow I specify that arch requirement in the
>> control file? Policy D 2.3 seems to indicate I can only sepcify a list
>> of supported archs, which is not what i want. I would like something like
>>
>> Architecture: !hurd-i386
>>
>> is this possible?
>
>This is not currently possible.  You must list supported architectures
>explicitly if not using 'any' or 'all'.

Having an "NOT arch" is IMHO evil.

Tell what is supported,  don't tell what you discriminate.

Geert




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