Re: Building architecture:all packages
On Sat, Nov 12, 2016 at 06:27:55PM +0100, Johannes Schauer wrote:
> Quoting Colin Watson (2016-11-12 18:09:22)
> > > * it supports only a single build-indep architecture rather than a list
> >
> > Not so; you have misread the code. It is a list of architectures that
> > architecture-independent binary packages can be on.
> >
> > > I propose the new field to be a list per the usual architecture syntax.
> >
> > Fortunately, since it already is, there is no need for a new field.
>
> so, the field also supports architecture wildcards? So I can say:
>
> Build-Indep-Architecture: any
>
> or:
>
> Build-Indep-Architecture: linux-any
Yes.
> And in an utopic feature, maybe even:
>
> Build-Indep-Architecture: any-gnu-any-any
>
> (to build on any glibc based architecture)
We'd need to have a dpkg-architecture that supports quadruplets on the
server side, and I'm not sure we currently do, but in principle yes.
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@debian.org]
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