[aur-general] architecture independent packages

[Roman Kyrylych]

2008/3/16, Abhishek Dasgupta <abhidg at gmail.com>:
> On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 7:41 PM, Roman Kyrylych
>  <roman.kyrylych at gmail.com> wrote:
>  > 2008/3/16, Abhishek Dasgupta <abhidg at gmail.com>:
>  >
>  > > For an architecture independent package, is it sufficient to build the
>  >  >  package once,
>  >  >  rename it appropriately and upload?
>  >
>  >  No, because there is arch = i686/x86_64 in .PKGINFO
>  >
>  >
>  >  > Or should it be built on both 32 and 64 bit?
>  >
>  >  No. :-)
>  >  For example, you have i686 system:
>  >  i686: makepkg (but do not use -c option)
>  >  x86_64: CARCH=x86_64 makepkg -R
>  >  ;-)
>  >
>  >  --
>  >  Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)
>  >
>
>
> Thanks!
>  I noticed a few packages in community which are architecture-independent
>  but the versions are different in 32 and 64 bit; so I could just
>  download the existing
>  package, modify the .PKGINFO and repackage it for 64bit w/o compiling, right?

Seems so, thanks for doing that. ;-)

-- 
Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)