[pacman-dev] [PATCH 1/2] Add 'arch' field to .BUILDINFO

[Allan McRae]

On 18/03/18 11:22, Eli Schwartz wrote:
> On 03/17/2018 05:24 PM, Robin Broda wrote:
>> Signed-off-by: Robin Broda <robin at broda.me>
>> ---
>>  doc/BUILDINFO.5.txt   | 3 +++
>>  scripts/makepkg.sh.in | 1 +
>>  2 files changed, 4 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/doc/BUILDINFO.5.txt b/doc/BUILDINFO.5.txt
>> index b7a72831..4734301e 100644
>> --- a/doc/BUILDINFO.5.txt
>> +++ b/doc/BUILDINFO.5.txt
>> @@ -44,6 +44,9 @@ BUILDINFO file format.
>>  *packager*::
>>  	The details of the packager that built the package.
>>  
>> +*arch*::
>> +	The architecture of the package.
>> +
> 
> I question the utility of duplicating this information in both
> .BUILDINFO and .PKGINFO

There is already a bunch duplicated across those files.  The goal was to
have everything needed to build the package in a reproducible way in the
.BUILDINFO file.

I do question why it was output at that point, rather than under the
version info where it seems much more natural.

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