Re: [arch-dev-public] Why do we still have compatibility rename for community?

On Nov 30, 2007 8:11 AM, Paul Mattal wrote:

Roman Kyrylych wrote:

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2007/11/30, Varun Acharya :

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Hi Devs/TU's,

Why do we still have the renaming of packages in community so that packages are uploaded without the '-arch' in the filename? Official repo's were converted a while back, any reason were not editing communitypkg to do the same?

I don't know if AUR backend is able to handle packages with -arch suffix. I asked Paul about this quite some time ago, but didn't recieve a reply AFAIR. Simo, can you take a look at this?

Sorry, thought I replied to this.

It doesn't handle the -arch suffix.

I would encourage the one who fixes this issue to make things completely filename agnostic if possible. Note the %FILENAME% field in the pacman sync DB entries now. In addition, the .PKGINFO file in the package is quite easy to parse. -Dan