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

[Dagobert Michelsen]

Hi Maciej,

Am 05.02.2010 um 11:08 schrieb Maciej (Matchek) Blizinski:
> On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 9:53 AM, Dagobert Michelsen <dam at opencsw.org>  
> wrote:
>> 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?

I think that would be too hard. Depending on the language devel-packages
may not always contain header-files, but manpages, developer  
documentation,
perl developer scripts or something. Unless we have the exceptions
machanism for checkpkg in place, at least.


Best regards

   -- Dago