On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 16:51:46 +0100 "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjo...@redhat.com> wrote:
> Kevin, about the provision to provide packages for other binary > architectures. > > RHEL 6 supplies qemu-kvm only on x86-64. This provision lets us > provide qemu-kvm on i386 and ppc64 I think. Yeah. The exact policy is: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL:Packaging#Limited_Arch_Packages > My questions: > > Does it have to be the same n-v-r of qemu-kvm? (This seems like it > would be impossible in practice, so I guess the answer must be no) No, it needs to be less than the one provided by RHEL. ie, a leading 0 on the release... > Can the other arches be provided by a differently named package? (We > call it 'qemu' in Fedora) I don't know. It would complicate things on versions, etc. > Can the EPEL package override the x86-64 package from RHEL, eg. by > providing qemu-kvm.x86-64 with a higher n-v-r? Or should the EPEL > package ExcludeArch the RHEL packages that exist? The EPEL version should be a lower n-v-r than the RHEL one. However, due to the way koji works, when we setup a package like this, it's the EPEL version on all arches that is seen/used in the buildsystem. There's no way to tell koji to block a package in only one arch or look for it in only some other ones. kevin
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