At 21:34 +0200 8/11/02, Russell Coker wrote: >On Sun, 11 Aug 2002 21:16, Geert Stappers wrote: >> >So you think I should keep my selinux packages as architecture any, even >> >though they will never run on on HURD or BSD? >> > >> >What about the Trusted BSD support packages? If Trusted BSD gets support >> > on multiple BSD architectures then should it be listed as architecture >> > any even though it will never compile on Linux? >> >> Hi Russell, >> >> To answer your question the rude way: YES! > >Why? > >> We are talking in 'debian-mentors@lists.debian.org'. >> When some smartie reports here >> "My package doesn't build on arch foo, >> I want to do an exclude of arch foo", >> then the answer shouldn't be >> "just list the supported archs" > >Please read my messages before replying. I am not talking about packages >that just happen to not compile, I am talking about packages that are >specifically designed for certain platforms only.
Okay, that makes sence. "specifically designed for certain platforms only" are the missing words. At 16:08 +0200 8/9/02, Andreas Rottmann wrote: >Hi! > >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? Even if you have a good reason to exclude architectures, please don't exclude them. Geert
