[pacman-dev] [PATCH 0/2] Add Architecture information to .BUILDINFO

[Allan McRae]

On 18/03/18 07:23, Robin Broda wrote:
> For reproducible builds, Foxboron and I are working on scripts to
> reproduce a given package file. Generating archive links to download
> the same exact packages that were present on the build machine is
> a crucial part of this.
> 
> The package names have architecture information appended to them, eg.
> archlinux-keyring-20180302-1-any instead of archlinux-keyring-20180302-1
> so to be able to reliably regenerate the package filename, architecture
> information is required.

Isn't this being handled elsewhere already - e.g. On the Debian provided
reproducible service?  How is that being managed without the
architecture information?

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