On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 16:57, Phil Blundell <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-02-28 at 13:26 +0000, Otavio Salvador wrote:
>> -PACKAGE_ARCHS = "all any noarch ${TARGET_ARCH} ${PACKAGE_EXTRA_ARCHS} 
>> ${MACHINE}"
>> +DISTRO_ARCH = "${TARGET_ARCH}-${DISTRO}"
>> +MACHINE_DISTRO_ARCH = "${MACHINE_ARCH}-${DISTRO}"
>> +PACKAGE_ARCHS = "all any noarch ${TARGET_ARCH} ${PACKAGE_EXTRA_ARCHS} 
>> ${DISTRO_ARCH} ${MACHINE_DISTRO_ARCH} ${MACHINE}"
>
> This seems a bit weird.  Any given package feed (or TMPDIR) is, more or
> less by definition, going to correspond to a single DISTRO so I can't
> see any situation in which these extra archs would be useful.  What's
> the use-case for this?

We have a set of products that reuse a common distro definition but
has different needs on a small set of packages. To avoid having them
all rebuild we set those to DISTRO_ARCH and the ones that depends on
machine and distro to MACHINE_DISTRO_ARCH avoiding a lot of rebuilding
and CPU time.

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Otavio Salvador                             O.S. Systems
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