I've also written a script, convert-to-any which takes the name of a package like this: convert-to-any community/pitivi and converts it into an arch-independent package. It also updates the repository databases accordingly, creating the 'any' folder in the repository if needed. This script requires dbscripts. However, this script does not make the repo-any dir in SVN. #!/bin/bash # Converts an existing package into an # architecture-independent package and updates # the repositories accordingly. # -- Abhishek Dasgupta <abhidg@gmail.com> . "$(dirname $0)/db-functions" [ "$UID" = "" ] && UID=$(uid) if [ $# -ne 1 ]; then echo "Syntax: $(basename $0) <reponame/pkgname>" exit 1 fi repo=$(echo $1 | sed "s#\(.*\)/.*#\1#g"N pkg=$(echo $1 | sed "s#.*/\(.*\)#\1#g") if [ -f "$(dirname $0)/config" ]; then . "$(dirname $0)/config" else TMPDIR=/srv/tmp FTP_BASE=/srv/ftp fi if [ -f /etc/makepkg.conf ]; then . /etc/makepkg.conf else echo "W: /etc/makepkg.conf does not exist." DB_COMPRESSION=gz PKGEXT=".pkg.tar.gz" fi repo_lock $repo any WORKDIR="$TMPDIR/convert-to-any.$pkg.$UID" ftppath="$FTP_BASE/$repo/os" cleanup() { trap '' 0 2 # unlock repo_unlock $repo any rm -rf "$WORKDIR" [ "$1" ] && exit $1 } ctrl_c() { echo "Interrupted" >&2 cleanup 0 } die() { echo "$*" >&2 cleanup 1 } # Enter the temporary build directory # and convert the i686 package into an # architecture-independent package. mkdir -p "$WORKDIR/build"; cd "$WORKDIR/build" oldpkgname=$ftppath/i686/$pkg* if [ -f "$oldpkgname" ]; then cp "$oldpkgname" . else die "E: Package $oldpkgname not found in $ftppath/i686" fi for architecture in i686 x86_64; do if [ -f "$ftppath/$architecture/$repo.db.tar.$DB_COMPRESSION" ]; then cp $ftppath/$architecture/$repo.db.tar.$DB_COMPRESSION \ $repo-$architecture.db.tar.$DB_COMPRESSION else touch $repo-$architecture.db.tar.$DB_COMPRESSION fi done if [ ! -d "$ftppath/any" ]; then mkdir -p "$ftppath/any"; fi # Conversion of i686 package into "any" package. echo -n "Extracting $pkg..." mkdir -p package tar zxf $pkg*i686$PKGEXT -C package echo " done." sed -i "s/arch = i686/arch = any/g" package/.PKGINFO newpkgname=$(ls $pkg*i686$PKGEXT | sed "s/i686/any/g") cd package; tar czf "$newpkgname" * .PKGINFO cd ..; mv "package/$newpkgname" . echo "Created $newpkgname." # New package is ready, move it into place and update db. mv "$newpkgname" "$ftppath/any/" for architecture in i686 x86_64; do # rm -f $ftppath/$architecture/$pkg*$PKGEXT ln -s "$ftppath/any/$newpkgname" "$ftppath/$architecture/$newpkgname" repo-remove -q $repo-$architecture.db.tar.$DB_COMPRESSION $pkg repo-add -q $repo-$architecture.db.tar.$DB_COMPRESSION $newpkgname mv $repo-$architecture.db.tar.$DB_COMPRESSION "$ftppath/os/$architecture" echo "Updated $repo-$architecture for $pkg." done repo_unlock echo -n "Cleaning up..." cd ../.. cleanup echo " done." -- Abhishek