On Thu, 03 Jul 2025 06:09:16 -0400 Campbell Jones <sere...@archlinux.org> said:
> On July 2, 2025 3:25:22 PM EDT, Levente Polyak <anthr...@archlinux.org> wrote:
> >On 7/2/25 6:29 PM, Carsten Haitzler wrote:
> >> On Wed, 2 Jul 2025 12:20:49 +0200 Christian Hesse <l...@eworm.de> said:
> >>
> >>> Carsten Haitzler <ras...@rasterman.com> on Wed, 2025/07/02 11:00:
> >>>> Next releases of anything I maintain shall be going arch=(any) as
> >>>> everything I maintain is fully portable anyway and always has been. My
> >>>> AUR pkgs already have a host of arch's in them and i'll simplify to any.
> >>>> No other changes needed.
> >>>
> >>> That's probable a bad idea. :-o
> >>>
> >>> That would set the arch "any" in the package metadata, which is not true
> >>> if it contains architecture dependent data, like elf files.
> >>
> >> yeah. i just found out - i never did that before. i was assuming it'd use
> >> $ARCH ... what's would be the way to go for "this will work on any arch -
> >> it's portable" without having to just list every arch i can think of?
> >>
> >>> --
> >>> main(a){char*c=/* Schoene Gruesse */"B?IJj;MEH"
> >>> "CX:;",b;for(a/* Best regards my address: */=0;b=c[a+
> >>> +];) putchar(b-1/(/* Chris cc -ox -xc - && ./x
> >>> */b/42*2-3)*42);}
> >>
> >>
> >
> >makepkg/pacman does not support a meta architecture like `all`. Packages
> >will need to explicitly opt for all supported architectures we expect to
> >ship in Arch Linux. Please keep the arch=() array limited to architectures
> >we actually do handle officially, which currently is only x86_64 :)
> >
> >Cheers,
> >Levente
>
> That may be something worth considering in the future. As much as I dislike
> Fedora's package format, their decision to make architectures opt-*out*
> instead of opt-in has apparently reduced the friction of adding new
> architectures quite a bit. We should consider adopting that approach.
Indeed. +1. I'd be all for an arch=(all) or arch=() which means all arch's
implicitly... it will make it drastically easier for many packagers to adapt to
a new multi-arch world ahead of time with no impact and less noise/maintenance.
--
Carsten Haitzler <ras...@archlinux.org>
Carsten Haitzler <ras...@rasterman.com>
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