On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 4:16 PM, Firmicus <[email protected]> wrote: > > IIRC Abishek and Aaron have been recently working to implement > "arch=any" in devtools etc. > > May I kindly ask about the current status of that? If there's any work > you would like to me to do, I might be able to give a hand. > > I'm asking because I am about to do a mass update of the texlive > packages, and that feature would be very convenient as all texlive > packages save one are arch-independent. Some of them can also be very > large (e.g. texlive-fontsextra with 136MB). So my question is: if the > implementation of the arch=any feature is more or less imminent, I might > wait before uploading the new texlive packages...
Hmmm, well basically the changes need to be tested and ironed out. And we need to ensure that the -any directories are scanned in all of our cron jobs. My suggestion: check out the dbscripts repo, change the config file (I hope everything is in there) and then try to create/maintain a repo. It might be useful to copy a handful of packages from your pkgcache just to have some cruft in the DB
