building arch:all packages on the buildd network (was: Re: when will we finally throw away binary uploads)
On 02/26/2014 14:39, Paul Tagliamonte wrote:
> I was going to send a mail about this yesterday. I've decided I'm going
> to start a quest to support this. I settled on Build-Indep-Architecture
> myself.
"Build-Architecture-Indep" might also work and is visually similar to
the already existing "Build-Depends-Indep" and "Build-Conflicts-Indep"
fields.
> BTW; the syntax would define a single arch; you know, in the spirit of
> reproducability.
I think allowing multiple architectures is more technically correct: not
restricting the build to specific architectures implies "any" so we
allow muliple architectures already.
For the implementation we might want to have a priority list. The first
architecture from the priority list that is allowed in Build-Arch-Indep
(or whatever) would build the arch:all packages. The list would likely
start with amd64 or i386 so that arch:all packages without
Build-Arch-Indep would be built on amd64 (i386).
Ansgar
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