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On Wed, 18 Mar 2020 12:47:53 -0500 |
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William Hubbs <williamh@g.o> wrote: |
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> On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 06:12:37PM +0100, Michał Górny wrote: |
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> > On Wed, 2020-03-18 at 09:54 -0500, William Hubbs wrote: |
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> > > this came up again on the recent thread about dropping non x86/amd64 |
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> > > support for python packages, and I want to bring it up again on its own |
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> > > thread. |
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> > > |
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> > > How often do architecture specific bugs really exist in languages like |
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> > > perl, python etc? From what I've seen they are pretty rare. Not to mention, |
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> > > if we found one somewhere, we could adjust keywords as necessary. |
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> > > |
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> > > Also, if someone did inadvertently keyword a package with noarch that didn't |
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> > > work everywhere, it would be a matter of adjusting the keywords for that |
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> > > package. |
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> > > |
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> > > So, my question is, why can't we add a noarch/~noarch keyword and see |
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> > > how things go? If it gets abused we can always nuke it later. |
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> > > |
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> > |
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> > 1. How is this going to work when noarch package depends on non-nonarch |
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> > package? I mean, will all the package managers actually work? Have you |
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> > did some minimal testing before bringing this up? |
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> Can you have multiple ACCEPT_KEYWORDS values in make.conf or |
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> make.defaults like this? |
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> ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 noarch" |
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> If so, things should just work. |
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Not quite. Tools like repoman will need to be updated to understand |
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that an ebuild with KEYWORDS="amd64" can depend on another ebuild with |
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only KEYWORDS="noarch". I do think the idea has merit though. |
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James Le Cuirot (chewi) |
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