[aur-general] A bit strange - unusual packages

Lukas Jirkovsky l.jirkovsky at gmail.com
Fri Mar 28 13:22:30 EDT 2014


CCed to the maintainer of these packages.

lib32- prefix is used for the 32bit packages that are meant to be used
with 64bit Arch, ie. with arch=('x86_64'). However, all your
lib32-distrho-* packages are arch=('i686'). You should provide only
one package that is arch=('x86_64' 'i686') for this.

You can use conditions in a PKGBUILD, if you need to use different
sources for i686 and x86_64.

I will delete the lib32-distrho-* packages in a few days.

On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 12:26 AM, Rob Til Freedmen
<rob.til.freedman at gmail.com> wrote:
> These packages are a bit strange in that they install binaries for
> x86_64 with following PKGBUILD's
>
> arch=('x86_64')
> https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/distrho-arctican/
> https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/distrho-bin/
> https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/distrho-drowaudio/
> https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/distrho-highlife/
> https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/distrho-hybridreverb2/
> https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/distrho-juced/
> https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/distrho-tal/
> https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/distrho-wolpertinger/
>
> and x86 binaries with these PKGBUILD's
>
> arch=('i686')
> https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/lib32-distrho-arctican/
> https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/lib32-distrho-bin/
> https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/lib32-distrho-drowaudio/
> https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/lib32-distrho-highlife/
> https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/lib32-distrho-hybridreverb2/
> https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/lib32-distrho-juced/
> https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/lib32-distrho-tal/
> https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/lib32-distrho-wolpertinger/
>
> Both groups install binaries to /usr/lib/lv2/
>
> My understanding of lib32 packages are that they provide 32bit
> libaries in a x86_64 environment installed to /usr/lib32,
> eg arch=('x86_64') but installing to /usr/lib32
>
> Source code is provided (with a small update) - for which I've created
> PKGBUILD's
>
> They correspond to distrho-git which builds separate packages for lv2,
> dssi etc.pp.


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