From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 54020 invoked by alias); 4 May 2017 19:41:11 -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 50836 invoked by uid 89); 4 May 2017 19:41:08 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-3.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=fundamentally, our, Hx-spam-relays-external:ESMTPA X-HELO: out4-smtp.messagingengine.com Received: from out4-smtp.messagingengine.com (HELO out4-smtp.messagingengine.com) (66.111.4.28) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Thu, 04 May 2017 19:41:06 +0000 Received: from compute6.internal (compute6.nyi.internal [10.202.2.46]) by mailout.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5AE7B20BAF for ; Thu, 4 May 2017 15:41:07 -0400 (EDT) Received: from frontend1 ([10.202.2.160]) by compute6.internal (MEProxy); Thu, 04 May 2017 15:41:07 -0400 X-ME-Sender: Received: from [192.168.1.102] (host31-51-207-210.range31-51.btcentralplus.com [31.51.207.210]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 0310D7E2B0 for ; Thu, 4 May 2017 15:41:06 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: noarching source packages References: <87wpa54u0a.fsf@Rainer.invalid> <87lgqg73kr.fsf@Rainer.invalid> <2c2a1988-8408-a639-5768-cc194869ed08@cornell.edu> To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com From: Jon Turney Message-ID: Date: Thu, 04 May 2017 19:41:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2017-05/txt/msg00034.txt.bz2 On 03/05/2017 12:50, Ken Brown wrote: > On 5/1/2017 4:05 PM, Ken Brown wrote: >> On 5/1/2017 3:57 PM, Achim Gratz wrote: >>>>> But the real problem is that besides our own stuff some upstream >>>>> sources >>>>> are archful. >>>> >>>> Examples? >>> >>> Last I looked, it was texlive. >> >> This might go back to the time when biber was distributed as a packed >> perl archive on x86 but not x86_64. > > No, it was actually due to the existence of source files of the form > > .-cygwin.tar.xz. > > But it was fixed a year ago. See the discussion at > > https://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin-apps/2016-05/msg00049.html > > and cygport commit 5c559d5ea49d69116d3073b68c8fb1e70522370a. Interesting. Anyhow, it seems that any cases of this we know of are bugs or mistakes. We can always adopt the solution here, where the source package contains sources for both arches (ofc, if those are fundamentally different, there's a question as to in what sense they are the "same" package anyhow... :-))