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

[Jan de Groot]

> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> Van: arch-general-bounces at archlinux.org [mailto:arch-general-
> bounces at archlinux.org] Namens Dan McGee
> Verzonden: woensdag 23 januari 2008 15:20
> Aan: General Discusson about Arch Linux
> Onderwerp: Re: [arch-general] Does pacman support "noarch" now?
> 
> On Jan 23, 2008 7:23 AM, Roman Kyrylych <roman.kyrylych at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Packages produced from PKGBUILD with arch=('any') are _excactly_ same
> > when built on either i686 or x86_64 or even unofficial 'i586' and
> > 'ppc' (when built with makepkg >= 3.0).
> > (They can differ only by build timestamp)
> 
> ONLY if they are architecture independent packages in the first place,
> so watch out here. That statement was a bit too general.
> 
> -Dan

This includes java applications like eclipse-ecj, bcprov, azureus, etc. It excludes java programs with native interfaces like swt and eclipse though.