[arch-general] Does pacman support "noarch" now?

[Roman Kyrylych]

2008/1/23, Mark Constable <markc at renta.net>:
> On 23 Jan 2008 16:45, Attila wrote:
> > > All fonts do not need a "i686" or "x86_64" option but in my memory
> > > pacman doesn't support noarch, which makes PKGBUILDs for fonts unable to
> > > compile without a unnecessary line.
> >
> > The NEWS link from http://www.archlinux.org/pacman says:
> >
> > - arch=('any') support (FS#8153)
>
> It's mentioned in the NEWS file and that bug report is very
> brief so where might the information be on how to actually
> implement the use of arch=('any') ?
>
> The one thing I can glean is that any 'any' packages will
> be added to all arch databases rather than have a separate
> directory tree for 'any' arch packages with it's own DB.
>

It's not yet implemented on a server side. I'm working on it (though
not as fast as I'd wish).
You can get more information about this on arch-dev-public archives.

-- 
Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)