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

[Roman Kyrylych]

2007/10/30, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com>:
> 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?
>

I just had to pick one. :-)
Another variant I like is 'any'.
pacman -Qi outputs:
Architecture: all - OK
Architecture: any - OK, probably even better
Architecture: noarch - huh? sounds bad ;-)

-- 
Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)