From: Andrew Schulman <schulman.andrew@epa.gov>
To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Dedup x86/x86_64 --> noarch
Date: Tue, 10 May 2016 06:20:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8cv2jblkgd2khl5esae0s09kc3731aq9s4@4ax.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87inymwjq1.fsf@Rainer.invalid>
> 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.
OK, thanks!
Andrew
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-05-10 6:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-04-16 10:04 Achim Gratz
2016-04-18 19:45 ` Achim Gratz
2016-04-23 10:51 ` Jon Turney
2016-04-23 11:19 ` Achim Gratz
2016-04-23 14:19 ` Achim Gratz
2016-04-23 15:32 ` Corinna Vinschen
2016-04-23 15:43 ` Achim Gratz
2016-05-09 14:38 ` Jon Turney
2016-05-09 16:43 ` Achim Gratz
2016-05-09 14:18 ` Jon Turney
2016-05-09 16:45 ` Achim Gratz
2016-05-09 22:41 ` Andrew Schulman
2016-05-10 5:44 ` Achim Gratz
2016-05-10 6:20 ` Andrew Schulman [this message]
2016-05-11 18:59 ` Jon Turney
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