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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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> > 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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> > 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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> > 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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> 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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Currently I don't know of any arch/package combos to test this with. |
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> 2. Who will be responsible for handling noarch stablereqs? Will there |
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> be a noarch arch team? |
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The maintainer would be able to add the "~noarch" keyword. I'm not sure |
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there needs to be a noarch arch team. We could just say that all arch |
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team members can stabilize these or maybe the maintainers can afterh the |
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timeout. |
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William |
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> -- |
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> Best regards, |
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> Michał Górny |
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