[arch-dev-public] Staging directories on gerolde

[Thayer Williams]

On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 10:16 AM, Travis Willard <travis at archlinux.org> wrote:
> On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 1:01 PM, Thayer Williams <thayer at archlinux.org> wrote:
>> I've updated the kde-common package for i686, but I can't build it for
>> x86_64. I guess it's time to start looking for a 3rd computer...
>
> Actually, this is one of those packages that could easily be for the
> 'any' arch.  Basically, since it's all scripts, and all of 'em are
> just copied into the proper locations, you can cheat - change your
> arch in makepkg.conf, rebuild the package (generating an x86_64
> package, which is identical to the i686 one) and upload it, then
> change back your makepkg.conf
>
> Since you're not building any code, this'll work fine.

...splitting this thread before its deviates further:

I just attempted to commit an x86_64 package and extrapkg spat out:

scp: staging/extra64/add/kde-common-3.5.9-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz: No such
file or directory
md5sum: staging/extra64/add/kde-common-3.5.9-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz: No
such file or directory
File got corrupted during upload, cancelled.

I had removed the {repo}64 dirs from ~/staging last week after reading
somewhere that we didn't need these any longer. However, as soon as I
added them again the package committed as expected.  Is this is a bug
or did I miss something else about the staging dirs?