[arch-dev-public] Staging directories on gerolde

[Thayer Williams]

On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 11:30 AM, Eric Belanger
<belanger at astro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
> 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.

OK gotcha. Someone had updated the DeveloperWiki to reflect this
change so I assumed it was in effect.