On Mon, 16 Mar 2026 23:51:03 -0400
Neal Gompa <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 16, 2026 at 10:03 PM Chris Adams <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > I maintain the perl-WWW-Mechanize-Chrome package, which is noarch.
> > Currently, I have build tests disabled because there were several issues
> > with the tests themselves, but a developer has been cleaning them up.
> > The tests use chromium-headless, but I realized that that's not built on
> > s390x.
> >
> > AFAIK building a noarch RPM can happen on any Fedora arch, so enabling
> > tests would fail if it gets assigned to an s390x host.  Is there a way
> > to avoid that, other than making the RPM arch and using ExclsiveArch
> > (and then matching what the chromium SRPM sets)?  The SRPM does have
> > (when tests are enabled) BuildRequires: chromium, would that keep it
> > from being assigned to an arch that doesn't have chromium available?
> >
> > There also still some issues that only seem to happen on ppc64le (but
> > not sure how to debug that).  The person working on the upstream code to
> > fix things asked if I could give them access to a system, but they're
> > not a Fedora packager, and I don't have such hardware.  I tried an
> > emulated VM but that had different errors during test (I guess maybe
> > there's some race conditions that the very different environment
> > triggers?).
> 
> I believe "BuildArch: noarch" and "ExcludeArch: s390x" works as a combination?

yes, it should do it

And I would probably Exclude ppc64le as well to reduce potential future
maintenance burden, because ppc64le support for Chromium lives only as
a (large) separate patchset and not in upstream Chromium.


                Dan
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