[aur-general] architecture independent packages

[Roman Kyrylych]

2008/3/16, Roman Kyrylych <roman.kyrylych at gmail.com>:
> 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
>  ;-)

Oops, that doesn't work.
You'll have to edit .PKGINFO by hand and then repackage with -Rf and
rename the file to have x86_64 suffix (not needed for community
though, because AUR backend still doesn't support them).

-- 
Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)