On Mon, 21 May 2001, Gordon Sadler wrote: > On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 04:57:56PM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote: > > Hi all,
> > I may just be looking in the wrong places in the developers' documentation, > > in > > which case I apologize in advance. I'm adopting a multi-binary package, one > > of whose binary packages won't build on the alpha architecture currently due > > to a compiler problem. I'd like to build the other packages (which all work > > fine) for the Alpha, so that they can be uploaded to unstable, and I'd like > > to > > explicitly exclude Alpha for that package so that nothing tries to build it > > until I can find a fix. > > Is there a way to say 'all except alpha' on the Architecture: line in > > debian/control? Or do I need to list out all the architectures I /do/ want > > to > > build it on? > What about this in the control file: > Package: xxx > Architecture: any [!alpha] Doesn't work. I checked the code of dpkg-gencontrol (dpkg-dev 1.9.6), and there doesn't seem to be any way to do this in the Architecture: line. Your options are 'any', 'all', or a space-delimited list of valid architectures. <shrug> Well, I'll make do... Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
