[arch-dev-public] Staging directories on gerolde

Eric Belanger belanger at ASTRO.UMontreal.CA
Fri May 30 14:30:44 EDT 2008


On Fri, 30 May 2008, Thayer Williams wrote:

> 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?
>

You still need the {repo}64 staging dir.  It's only after the devtools 
will be updated that these {repo}64 dirs will be no longer needed.

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