On Sun, 29 Jan 2006 13:50:52 +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: > > > Just FYI, I created several new tracker bugs: > > > > > > 179258 - FE-ExcludeArch-x86 > > > 179259 - FE-ExcludeArch-x64 > > > 179260 - FE-ExcludeArch-PPC > > > > > > How should they get used? > > Why have users > > Packagers, not users. > > > to cope with this at all? > > We need the reason why a packager is ExcludeArch/ExlusiveArch somewhere > documented. Bugzilla is the right place for this IMHO. No, the .spec file is. Bugzilla may be used to track existing packages which are affected by ExcludeArch tags. But prior to that, the spec file must explain the reason for using ExcludeArch/ExclusiveArch. > > It probably wouldn't be too difficult to write script > > The script does not know why the package is ExcludeArch/ExlusiveArch. First talk about how to enter such information to a spec file, then talk about how a script can extract the information. ;-) > > to iterate through > > all *.specs or srpms and update such bugzilla PRs automatically. > > Update??? A bug only should be filed once when the > ExcludeArch/ExclusiveArch is added -- in most cases this will > during/after review. Doesn't suffice. Imagine an upstream upgrade can be built for all archs. Who looks up the tracker tickets in bugzilla? -- fedora-extras-list mailing list fedora-extras-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-extras-list