[arch-general] Independent arch field in sub packages? (Was: Re: [commitpkg] Some stylistic cleanup)

[Aaron Griffin]

On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 4:04 PM, Evangelos Foutras <foutrelis at gmail.com> wrote:
> Aaron Griffin wrote:
>>
>> Actually, we might even be able to ignore the arch=() field for
>> purposes of uploading here. We could just loop over a hardcoded list
>> of architectures (let's face it, these won't be changing regularly).
>> The dbscripts do something similar - there is an ARCHES=(i686 x86_64)
>> array, and some (not all) for loops do:
>>   for _arch in ${ARCHES[@]} any; do ... done
>
> Maybe I'm over-thinking it and missing a simpler solution. I'm trying to be
> as explicit as possible, in order to avoid uploading any unneeded or wrong
> packages that, for whatever reason, may exist in the same directory where
> commitpkg is run. Another crucial point is that archrelease must not be
> executed (for the currently examined repo) if not all packages are present
> and uploaded.

I was thinking solely for the purpose of uploading. The db scripts
will verify things on the later end. My thoughts didn't extend to the
execution of archrelease

> At any rate, I think we'll have to retrieve sub package variables in the
> foreseeable future, when this gets implemented:
> http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/15955. It certainly looks tricky though, as
> the variables are overridden in package_*() functions which contain other
> commands as well.

Yeah this seems a ways off anyway :)