[pacman-dev] [PATCH] Add support for arch='all' to makepkg

[Aaron Griffin]

On 10/30/07, Roman Kyrylych <roman.kyrylych at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2007/10/30, Roman Kyrylych <roman.kyrylych at gmail.com>:
> > Hi!
> >
> > Today I have started adding support for noarch packages.
> > This is the first step. The attached patch adds support for arch='all'
> > to makepkg.
> > It's very simple because it just sets CARCH to all and then everything
> > else goes as usual.
> >
> > When we'll add support for subpackages - we'll have to make additional
> > checks to be sure we can build -i686/-x86_64 package and -all package
> > from one PKGBUILD.
> > This depends on a way we implement subpackages and can be modified later.
> >
> > So far, pacman-git is able to install packages built with the modified makepkg,
> > and shows "Architecture: all" on -Qi.
> >
> > I'll post patches for other scripts soon.
> >
> > How to test it:
> > 1) get any font/cursor/etc PKGBUILD from AUR,
> > 2) replace arch=('i686' 'x86_64') with arch='all'
> > 3) use the patched makepkg to build the package
> > 4) use pacman -U (git version, 3.0.x fails) to install the package
> > 5) do pacman -Qi
> >
>
> OK, here is a patch for gensync and updatesync.
> repo-add and repo-remove don't need any modifications.

Both of these look good to me. One question though - are we sure we
want to use "all" as the architecture? It makes sense grammatically,
but is it the best name?