On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 12:57 PM, Paul Elliott wrote: > The fact that a package is architecture independent is no guarantee that the > package will build under all architectures. The package can "build depend" on > packages that don't exist for some architectures. > > But if the package once built under any particular architecture, should then > run under all architectures. > > My question is what happens in this case? Will the build system take the > build results from one of the "good" architectures, ( that is architectures > where the package does build successfully,) and give the results of that build > to the bad architectures?
The Debian buildds do not (yet) build any Architecture: all packages, they are currently all built on developer machines. IIRC there is a plan to build all packages on the buildds but that isn't yet in place. Part of that is adding a Build-Architecture field for packages that are Architecture: all but can only build on certain architectures. I guess the procedures for an Architecture: all package will be approximately the same as for Architecture: any packages where an architecture has multiple buildds. Give the package to one of the available buildds to try and if it fails, give it to another one. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAKTje6EwF=z1�[email protected]
