On Nov 27, 2007 4:56 PM, Jason Chu <jason@archlinux.org> wrote:

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* Architecture Independent Repos

More correct: Architecture Independent Packages They were intended to be placed in the same repos as i686/x86_64 packages, and in the same db.tar.gz They can be placed in $repo/os/any/ dir on FTP servers though (to save the space and traffic for mirrors) with $repo/os/{i686,x86_64}/$pkgname-$pkgver-$pkgrel-any.pkg.tar.gz being a symlink to ../any/$pkgname-$pkgver-$pkgrel-any.pkg.tar.gz (this is because packages should be in the same dir as .db.tar.gz for pacman to download them).

Are you sure about that? I thought they were going to be separate repos that would be usable in x86_64 and i686. That way we'd save bandwidth (upload and download) and storage space *and* save time building packages.

I could go either way here - I don't have a strong opinion, but jason has a point about size (bandwidth, disk space, etc).