[csw-maintainers] GAR: archall - a new checkpkg module

[Maciej (Matchek) Blizinski]

On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 9:53 AM, Dagobert Michelsen <dam at opencsw.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Am 05.02.2010 um 09:00 schrieb Roger Håkansson:
>>
>> Maciej (Matchek) Blizinski wrote:
>>>
>>> I spoke about this today with
>>> Phil on IRC, there may be devel packages with architecture related
>>> settings.  I need to hunt down some of them and build checks based on
>>> some examples.
>>
>> I don't think you can make it totally foolproof unless you have access
>> to both ARCH-packages and diff them as part of the release procedure.
>
> Please stop trying to make devel-files ARCHALL. It can't be done if
> you have 64 bit because you have arch-specific directories. If the
> app has devel-files at all it sounds like some other apps may rely
> on it and than we already decided to provide 64 bit libs just in
> case. And the few 32 bit ones are not worth the effort with only a
> few kbs of mirrorspace to gain.
>
> IMHO the risk outweighs the gain here.

In this case, should checkpkg try to identify devel packages and throw
an error if they're archall?