On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 04:22:04PM +0200, Matthias Saou wrote: > Michael E Brown wrote : > > > > > On Mon, 2 Apr 2007 11:43:58 +0200, Matthias Saou wrote: > > > > > I just realized that I got bitten by this too! The ipw*firmware > > > > > packages I maintain have : > > > > > > > > > > BuildArch: noarch > > > > > # This is so that the noarch packages only appears for these archs > > > > > ExclusiveArch: noarch i386 x86_64 > > > > > > > > > > And I thought that the buildsystem would get things right, but it seems > > > > > like it doesn't since I just saw that they were available for ppc. > > > > > Maybe it's just a matter of fixing the push script so that it checks > > > > > the exclusivearchs before it checks if the package is noarch (just a > > > > > wild guess). > > > > The ipw2200 is a mini-pci card. Doesnt the firmware run *on* the card? > > In that case, is it truly arch-specific? > > Are you saying that it could be found in e.g. ppc hardware? In that > case, then the current packages, although containing one wrong line in > their spec file, are available for the right archs (all) :-) Since it is a minipci card, I would think that you could put it in an old ppc-based mac notebook (assuming they have minipci slots). Or one of those fancy sparc notebooks (again, assuming minipci slots). Or, somebody could use a converter to slot the minipci card into a regular pci slot on a ppc/otherarch machine. These guys: http://www.costronic.com/Ev09mp.htm appear to sell what would be necessary to do this. I would assume that ipw2200-firmware would be cross platform, but then again, I could be mistaken. Depends on what the firmware does. If it just runs on the processor inside the card, then it should be. If it has any host-executable code, probably not. -- Michael -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
