[aur-dev][PATCH] git-update: accept any arch when discovering arch-dependent metadata

[Lukas Fleischer]

On Fri, 18 May 2018 at 02:44:51, Eli Schwartz wrote:
> Currently we hardcode the architectures the official repos historically
> supported, which seems both inefficient because of hardcoding, and
> simply wrong, because many packages support various ARM platforms too.
> 
> If we were to say "only officially supported arches will be supported in
> the AUR" we'd have to disable i686, which seems silly and arbitrarily
> restrictive. Also there's better places to implement such a blacklist
> (via die_commit in the main loop, via a config option to list supported
> arches, would make much more sense in terms of logic).
> 
> As for the metadata extraction itself, there's no reason to hardcode the
> arches to check for at all. We can get this information too, from the
> .SRCINFO itself. Detecting this dynamically is not incompatible with a
> blacklist, should we ever decide to implement such a thing.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eli Schwartz <eschwartz at archlinux.org>
> ---
> 
> Just in case I wasn't obvious, I don't support adding a real blacklist
> any more than the currently existing accidental sort of kind of one...
> 
> But currently we're really inconsistent in how we treat e.g.
> source_aarch64 which just quietly disappears and should really be shown
> in the web interface. This is extremely valid in -bin packages.
> 
> It looks like we weren't hardcoding this anywhere but there anyway, the
> database/frontend don't seem to care what the value of arch is before
> displaying it. So, no database changes, and less bytes of code.
> 
> This is a really long commit message and annotation for a two-word
> change...
> 
>  aurweb/git/update.py | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> [...]

Merged into pu, thanks!