I dont know what then official stance is, but I have seen and used armv7 packages in the AUR --James On 10/06/2014 02:03 PM, Jameson wrote:

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?

Thanks, =-Jameson

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

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. Cheers, -- Sébastien "Seblu" Luttringer https://seblu.net | Twitter: @seblu42 GPG: 0x2072D77A

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 <seblu@seblu.net>:

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.

Cheers,

-- Sébastien "Seblu" Luttringer https://seblu.net | Twitter: @seblu42 GPG: 0x2072D77A

-- *Pablo Lezaeta*

On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 2:57 PM, Anatol Pomozov <anatol.pomozov@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi

On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 6:03 AM, Jameson <imntreal@gmail.com> 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.

Thanks to everyone for chiming in. I found myself in a position where I didn't want to make things difficult for the user, but I also didn't want to be part of people unknowingly setting a bad precedent of adding ARM architectures to their PKGBUILDs.