Johan Grahn wrote: > On Wed, 2007-06-13 at 22:43 +0100, Andrew Fyfe wrote: >> Are there any plans (if so when) to switch the official repositories >> over to the new package naming format? >> >> Current/Old: name-ver-rel.pkg.tar.gz >> New: name-ver-rel-arch.pkg.tar.gz > > Why do you wanna do this? I'm just curios... > > Is it not better to just have separate repos because they are compiled > differently and better to maintain. > > I'm not saying that is it a bad idea, I just wanna know how you think > >> Andrew >> >> _______________________________________________ >> arch mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch > > > _______________________________________________ > arch mailing list > [email protected] > http://archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
I'm not bothered either way, but currently makepkg (from pacman3) produces packages with the new naming scheme, and it's a PITA trying to parse a package filename when you have to account for both old and new naming schemes. Andrew _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
