[arch-dev-public] Architecture Independent Packages

[Aaron Griffin]

On 9/26/07, Roman Kyrylych <roman.kyrylych at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2007/9/26, Travis Willard <travis at archlinux.org>:
> > On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 14:49:13 -0500
> > "Aaron Griffin" <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > On 9/25/07, Dan McGee <dpmcgee at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > 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
> > >
> > > Ok, yeah let's revive this, BUT, lets get at least a majority opinion
> > > on arch independent repos, before we attack this.
> > >
> > > Can I get a simple +1/-1 for this, before Dan and I take it too far?
> > >
> >
> > +1 for architecture independence
> >
>
> +1.
>
> Note that we don't need any noarch repo or something like this!
> We should just do this:
> 1) modify {core,extra,community}pkg to tag CVS files for noarch
> packages as CURRENT and CURRENT64 at the same time
> 2) add noarch packages to i686 and x86_64 .db.tar.gz files at the same time
> (modify all needed scripts)
> 3) modify makepkg to understand arch=('any') (or 'all', feel free to
> name it) and make -any.pkg.tar.gz files
> 4) modify our web backend (we need to do this anyway because of x86_64 support)
> No changes to pacman needed.

This is a good point, I didn't think about it. Pacman 3.0 lists actual
filenames in the DBs (so a package could actually be named "lol.wtf"
if you wanted it to). If we simply add special handling in the scripts
(makepkg, db scripts, etc) for -any/-all packages, we can solve this
with little changes.

Dan and I will look into this - could someone add a ticket to flyspray
as a reminder - assign it to Dan and myself.

Thanks.
--Aaron