[arch-releng] Final checklist for 2009.01/02

[Allan McRae]

Pierre Schmitz wrote:
> Am Sonntag 01 Februar 2009 01:46:21 schrieb Evangelos Foutras:
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>>>> FS#13068: we have to wait until grub-gfx package is updated for 64bit
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>>> How should this be built. I tried to set the DESTARCH in the PKGBUILD to
>>> x86_64; but the resulting package is still i686. (according to pacman
>>> -Qip). CARCH=x86_64 makepkg does not work, too.
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> Well, I just commmited the new package for x86:64. The problem was the -L 
> switch of makepkg which seems to prevent it from able to chagne carch during 
> build.
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That is because the -L flag uses tee which causes any variables defined 
during the build() function to be lost on exit from it.  This would work 
with the latest git makepkg if the export statement was in the package() 
function.

Allan