On Fri, 2014-08-15 at 22:11 +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Aug 15 12:21, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: > > However, what I did suggest earlier was to have a separate > > noarch/release hierarchy for entirely noarch packages, which would > > prevent having to upload noarch twice: > > > > http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2013-03/msg00126.html > > > > I do this with Ports and it works quite well, but then again I'm the > > only one uploading there. > > Shouldn't be much of a difference, as long as the upload script > understands a noarch dir parallel to the x86 and x86_64 dirs, > isn't it?
A few things would have to be changed on the infrastructure side, but I think it's doable. The biggest issue may be that maintainers need to mark their packages ARCH=noarch as appropriate, and then remember to upload to a separate directory. The latter could be simplified with the "cygport upload" proposal, should we decide to do this with noarch in the first place. Yaakov