[aur-general] Community64 status again...

[Allan McRae]

Hi TUs,

I know I keep on about this but I just had a look at the pkg_diff page 
[1] and I noticed there has been a big increase in the number of 
differences between the i686 and x86_64 community repos. 

To put some numbers to this, since the 17th there has been 11 packages 
added to i686 but not x86_64 and another 29 packages have been updated 
in i686 but not x86_64.  We are now up to 190 differences between the 
architectures.  Taking away the lib32 packages and the known build 
failures [2] leaves about 80 differences that can be fixed. That is 
about double the amount in the extra repo and it has more packages in 
total...

How do we fix this?  Here is what I propose:

1. If you add a new package to community and can only build for one repo 
then you must post a message to the list asking for someone to build it 
for the other.  I.e. if you are bringing the package to community, then 
you are responsible for getting it in both arches.

2. Everyone who does not have access to a x86_64 machine, should get 
access to the build machine by contacting Aaron.

3. If it is inconvenient to build x86_64 packages on the build box (e.g. 
because of having to wait on deps to sync) then you should arrange with 
one of the x86_64 using TU's to do the building for you.

What do TU's think about these ideas?  I'd like to get some official 
guidelines out there so I can prod consistent offenders (you know who 
you are....)!

Regards,
Allan

[1] http://dev.archlinux.org/~andyrtr/pkg_diff.html
[2] http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Community64_Status