[pacman-dev] x86-64 builds?

[Dan McGee]

On 2/11/07, Andreas Radke <a.radke at arcor.de> wrote:
>
> I'm reading here but don't have much time for playing with it these
> days. Tell me when the true testing begins so I can switch over using
> it for daily pkg building.
>
> Two small questions:
>
> 1) Do you recommend or is it required to mark the arch with "" around
> as Jan is adding it always - arch=("i686") or simply arch=(i686)?

Either works, first of all. But in our documentation we are trying to
be pretty consistent with saying arch=('i686').

> 2) Will we get an option to makepkg.conf to set the desired compression
> gz/bz2 (+ compression level?). I still think it would make sense to use
> bzip though it eats more cpu time.

With 3.0, not yet. However, this is quite doable, and it is probably
worth implementing even if we don't switch the default.

-Dan