Re: [aur-general] AUR and unsuported architectures

2012-07-21 Thread Gaetan Bisson
[2012-07-21 10:15:55 +0200] SanskritFritz: > Is there an official consensus about this question? No. > I was asked to > include 'arm' to the architecture array in fish-shell-git. I have no > problems with that, but want to conform to the general > recommendations. I would do it and think you sho

Re: [aur-general] AUR and unsuported architectures

2012-07-21 Thread SanskritFritz
On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 2:12 AM, Martti Kühne wrote: > On Sun, Jun 03, 2012 at 08:52:39PM -0300, Hugo Osvaldo Barrera wrote: >> >> But that would simply add "arm" or "ppc" to the ARCH array. The point >> is to know beforehand if the package works - currently I can know if a >> package works or not

Re: [aur-general] AUR and unsuported architectures

2012-06-03 Thread Martti Kühne
On Sun, Jun 03, 2012 at 08:52:39PM -0300, Hugo Osvaldo Barrera wrote: > > But that would simply add "arm" or "ppc" to the ARCH array. The point > is to know beforehand if the package works - currently I can know if a > package works or not in my arch (amd64) by looking at the PKGBUILD. > That's t

Re: [aur-general] AUR and unsuported architectures

2012-06-03 Thread Hugo Osvaldo Barrera
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2012-06-03 20:44, Martti Kühne wrote: > On Mon, Jun 04, 2012 at 01:38:01AM +0200, Martti Kühne wrote: > >> What about a modded aur client, I could write a patch to about >> any given aur helper within minutes that would add the arch to >> the PKGBU

Re: [aur-general] AUR and unsuported architectures

2012-06-03 Thread Martti Kühne
On Mon, Jun 04, 2012 at 01:38:01AM +0200, Martti Kühne wrote: > What about a modded aur client, I could write a patch to about any given aur > helper within minutes that would add the arch to the PKGBUILD after download, > which would simply add/enforce the desired arch. Excuse my inability to ig

Re: [aur-general] AUR and unsuported architectures

2012-06-03 Thread Martti Kühne
On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 08:58:57PM -0300, Hugo Osvaldo Barrera wrote: > I was wondering what's the general approach given to these architectures > on AUR; since AUR is unsupported, is it ok to add these architectures to > the PKGBUILD's arch array? What about a modded aur client, I could write a p

Re: [aur-general] AUR and unsuported architectures

2012-06-02 Thread Baptiste
On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 09:56:40AM -0300, Hugo Osvaldo Barrera wrote: > On 2012-05-31 08:10, Phillip Smith wrote: > > On 31 May 2012 17:38, Jelle van der Waa wrote: > >> When I first though about it, I wanted to say "why not", it doesn't hurt > >> the functioning of the normal i686,x86_64 packages

Re: [aur-general] AUR and unsuported architectures

2012-06-01 Thread Rashif Ray Rahman
On 2 June 2012 11:21, Connor Behan wrote: > On 01/06/12 08:17 PM, Hugo Osvaldo Barrera wrote: >> Given that this question ("is arm/ppc allowed in AUR?") has had a bit >> of mixed responses, can I expect a bit more of discussion on this, or >> should I consider the "no" final? Thanks, > > I wouldn'

Re: [aur-general] AUR and unsuported architectures

2012-06-01 Thread Connor Behan
On 01/06/12 08:17 PM, Hugo Osvaldo Barrera wrote: > Given that this question ("is arm/ppc allowed in AUR?") has had a bit > of mixed responses, can I expect a bit more of discussion on this, or > should I consider the "no" final? Thanks, I wouldn't consider the "no" final. If you put a PKGBUILD i

Re: [aur-general] AUR and unsuported architectures

2012-06-01 Thread Hugo Osvaldo Barrera
On 2012-06-01 03:17, Jelle van der Waa wrote: > On 01/06/12 02:31, Loui Chang wrote: >> On Thu 31 May 2012 09:56 -0300, Hugo Osvaldo Barrera wrote: >>> On 2012-05-31 08:10, Phillip Smith wrote: On 31 May 2012 17:38, Jelle van der Waa wrote: > When I first though about it, I wanted to say

Re: [aur-general] AUR and unsuported architectures

2012-06-01 Thread Xyne
Loui Chang wrote: > > It may be a bit of chicken-and-egg, though. The ppc/arm userbase might > > grow if arch is seen stable enough and seems to have sufficient > > packages, possibly making it worth being supported, but the lack of > > infrastructure won't make that so possible. > > Yes, I also

Re: [aur-general] AUR and unsuported architectures

2012-05-31 Thread Jelle van der Waa
On 01/06/12 02:31, Loui Chang wrote: > On Thu 31 May 2012 09:56 -0300, Hugo Osvaldo Barrera wrote: >> On 2012-05-31 08:10, Phillip Smith wrote: >>> On 31 May 2012 17:38, Jelle van der Waa wrote: When I first though about it, I wanted to say "why not", it doesn't hurt the functioning of t

Re: [aur-general] AUR and unsuported architectures

2012-05-31 Thread Loui Chang
On Thu 31 May 2012 09:56 -0300, Hugo Osvaldo Barrera wrote: > On 2012-05-31 08:10, Phillip Smith wrote: > > On 31 May 2012 17:38, Jelle van der Waa wrote: > >> When I first though about it, I wanted to say "why not", it doesn't hurt > >> the functioning of the normal i686,x86_64 packages. > > > >

Re: [aur-general] AUR and unsuported architectures

2012-05-31 Thread Hugo Osvaldo Barrera
On 2012-05-31 08:10, Phillip Smith wrote: > On 31 May 2012 17:38, Jelle van der Waa wrote: >> When I first though about it, I wanted to say "why not", it doesn't hurt >> the functioning of the normal i686,x86_64 packages. > > I thought the same, but after thinking more... While AUR is > "unsuppor

Re: [aur-general] AUR and unsuported architectures

2012-05-31 Thread Seblu
On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 1:10 PM, Phillip Smith wrote: > I thought the same, but after thinking more... While AUR is > "unsupported", the project/site is still an official item. > > In my mind, it doesn't make sense to include unofficial platforms in > official infrastructure, supported or not. I a

Re: [aur-general] AUR and unsuported architectures

2012-05-31 Thread Phillip Smith
On 31 May 2012 17:38, Jelle van der Waa wrote: > When I first though about it, I wanted to say "why not", it doesn't hurt > the functioning of the normal i686,x86_64 packages. I thought the same, but after thinking more... While AUR is "unsupported", the project/site is still an official item. I

Re: [aur-general] AUR and unsuported architectures

2012-05-31 Thread Simon Gomizelj
And could it potentially lead to AUR packages uploaded without either 'i686' or 'x86_64' set? On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 09:38:05AM +0200, Jelle van der Waa wrote: > On 31/05/12 01:58, Hugo Osvaldo Barrera wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I've recently seen some comments in AUR, where a user points out that X >>

Re: [aur-general] AUR and unsuported architectures

2012-05-31 Thread Jelle van der Waa
On 31/05/12 01:58, Hugo Osvaldo Barrera wrote: > Hi, > > I've recently seen some comments in AUR, where a user points out that X > package works well on powerpc/arm. > > I was wondering what's the general approach given to these architectures > on AUR; since AUR is unsupported, is it ok to add th

[aur-general] AUR and unsuported architectures

2012-05-30 Thread Hugo Osvaldo Barrera
Hi, I've recently seen some comments in AUR, where a user points out that X package works well on powerpc/arm. I was wondering what's the general approach given to these architectures on AUR; since AUR is unsupported, is it ok to add these architectures to the PKGBUILD's arch array? If it is ok,