[arch-dev-public] Architecture Independent Packages

Dan McGee dpmcgee at gmail.com
Tue Sep 25 15:42:48 EDT 2007


On 9/25/07, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9/25/07, Dan McGee <dpmcgee at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Wait, now that I'm thinking, it might exist in the PKGINFO but pacman
> > never explicitly checks it...
>
> Yeah, I don't know if we ever do a "pkg arch == running arch" check.
> The only time it'd matter is with the filename.

Worth reviving? It was on the back-burner but it is something that has
bugged me. If we do this, we could easily do some stuff for
arch-generic packages around the same time.

http://code.toofishes.net/gitweb.cgi?p=pacman.git;a=commitdiff;h=a384a2feb2e55e97e979ef30cff6905561905739

-Dan




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