[arch-dev-public] -ARCH package extension

[Aaron Griffin]

On 5/11/07, Dan McGee <dpmcgee at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5/11/07, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 5/11/07, Thomas Bächler <thomas at archlinux.org> wrote:
> > > --- usr/bin/extrapkg    2006-04-28 04:54:19.000000000 +0200
> > > +++ /usr/bin/extrapkg   2007-05-08 23:08:57.000000000 +0200
> > > @@ -10,7 +10,9 @@
> > >  fi
> > >
> > >  source PKGBUILD
> > > +pkg3file=${pkgname}-${pkgver}-${pkgrel}-i686.pkg.tar.gz
> > >  pkgfile=${pkgname}-${pkgver}-${pkgrel}.pkg.tar.gz
> > > +[ -f $pkg3file ] && mv $pkg3file $pkgfile
> > >
> > >  if [ ! -f $pkgfile ]; then
> > >         pkgfile=$PKGDEST/$pkgfile
> > >
> > > Works better IMO and doesn't add an extra step to package management.
> > > Maybe we should add a similar workaround in devtools for now, as all
> > > devs and TUs use it.
> >
> > I was thinking about that too - it'd make a decent intermediate step.
> >
> > Jason? What do you think, devtools is your baby
>
> We can rebuild a patched devtools for now in the repos regardless.
> Have it look for either package name and rename it to the old style
> name? Any takers? I like the patch above.

Looks good, though we probably want some form of 'CARCH' in there.

Set a global "CARCH='i686'" and sed it out for x86_64 ?