There is a quasi-stand for the architectures. only x86_64, i686 and any (no build need, something like scripts or example) are the only supported arch in AUR. throw the story in the mailisting and now with the "request deletion" there are cases, all packages not follow those 3 are deleted, if you se a package using a diferent architecture the recomemded way is either contact the maintainer ti fix it or file a request to delete. Ovious you can open a feature request or a discution with the devs about it, but ARC (including aur) only support those two. 2014-10-06 15:51 GMT-03:00 Sébastien Luttringer :

On 06/10/2014 15:03, Jameson wrote:

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I know that officially Arch only supports i686 and x86_64, but what about AUR? I occasionally have people request that I add ARM architectures to my PKGBUILDs in the AUR. Is it more appropriate for me to tell them that it is an unsupported architecture, or just add it so they don't have to modify it prior to building? Archlinux support only i686 and x86_64 architectures. So, AUR valid architectures are these two.

Numbers: There is 650 PKGBUILD architecture matching armv on 51706 (1%). You can safely ignore request for this architecture.

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On 10/06/2014 11:57 AM, Anatol Pomozov wrote:

Hi

On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 6:03 AM, Jameson wrote:

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I know that officially Arch only supports i686 and x86_64, but what about AUR? I occasionally have people request that I add ARM architectures to my PKGBUILDs in the AUR. Is it more appropriate for me to tell them that it is an unsupported architecture, or just add it so they don't have to modify it prior to building? AUR arch should contain either i686 or x86_64 as these are only architectures supported by Arch.

All non-Intel users (like those who install Arch on arm) should use 'makepkg --ignorearch' flag. or -A

There isn't really an official stance. It's neither explicitly allowed nor denied. Feel free to add the architecture if the package works on a specific ARM architecture if you want.

There is an official stance as dictated on the wiki [1] however I happen to agree with the last part of what you said. Strictly speaking, maintainers shouldn't add anything except i686, x86_64 or any. That said, I don't see why anyone short of being truely anal would request that, say, an armv6h architecture entry be removed from a PKGBUILD if it also already specifies i686 and x86_64. i686-x86_64-any anal-ness belongs in the official repos, the forum and to a large extent, the wiki. [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_Packaging_Standards#Architectures -- David Phillips GPG Key 0x7BF3D17D0884BF5B Fingerprint 2426 235A 7831 AA2F 56AF 4BC0 7BF3 D17D 0884 BF5B