From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 23856 invoked by alias); 10 May 2016 05:44:28 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-apps-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk Sender: cygwin-apps-owner@cygwin.com List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 23837 invoked by uid 89); 10 May 2016 05:44:27 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=demonstration, gains, schulman, Schulman X-HELO: mail-in-05.arcor-online.net Received: from mail-in-05.arcor-online.net (HELO mail-in-05.arcor-online.net) (151.189.21.45) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (CAMELLIA256-SHA encrypted) ESMTPS; Tue, 10 May 2016 05:44:12 +0000 Received: from mail-in-20-z2.arcor-online.net (mail-in-20-z2.arcor-online.net [151.189.8.85]) by mx.arcor.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3r3p8n4pNfzp1h for ; Tue, 10 May 2016 07:44:09 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mail-in-17.arcor-online.net (mail-in-17.arcor-online.net [151.189.21.57]) by mail-in-20-z2.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id A139F835E3B for ; Tue, 10 May 2016 07:44:09 +0200 (CEST) X-DKIM: Sendmail DKIM Filter v2.8.2 mail-in-17.arcor-online.net 3r3p8n3nndzZ1L Received: from Gertrud (p54B46F42.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [84.180.111.66]) (Authenticated sender: stromeko@arcor.de) by mail-in-17.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 3r3p8n3nndzZ1L for ; Tue, 10 May 2016 07:44:09 +0200 (CEST) From: Achim Gratz To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Dedup x86/x86_64 --> noarch References: <87zistg99v.fsf@Rainer.invalid> Date: Tue, 10 May 2016 05:44:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: (Andrew Schulman's message of "Mon, 09 May 2016 18:41:19 -0400") Message-ID: <87inymwjq1.fsf@Rainer.invalid> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.93 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-SW-Source: 2016-05/txt/msg00022.txt.bz2 Andrew Schulman writes: > I feel as though I've once again missed some important discussion about package > maintenance. Your question implies that we can now upload packages with arch > "noarch". Is that true? Meanwhile it has become true, although Jon and Yaakov are still in the early stages of adding support for that. But my posting really was meant as a demonstration that there are substantial gains to be had from going to this layout and that therefore it'd be worthwile adding official support for it. > I remember a discussion of this question a year or two ago, where IIRC the > result was that we wouldn't have any "noarch" packages. Did that change? If > so, I seem to have missed the discussion here. It should be worth a "HEADSUP". Yes, this needs to be announced soonish (Yaakov?) as otherwise some folks will be a bit surprised to see their mirror scripts not working anymore. > If this is what's happened, we need to update https://cygwin.com/setup.html with > the new information (the page is overdue for an overhaul anyway). In particular > I wonder if cygport is ready to handle the change. AFAIK, not quite yet. Regards, Achim. -- +<[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305 Neuron microQkb Andromeda XTk Blofeld]>+ Factory and User Sound Singles for Waldorf rackAttack: http://Synth.Stromeko.net/Downloads.html#WaldorfSounds