Subject: Re: distinfo files for multiple architectures
To: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
From: None <mcmahill@mtl.mit.edu>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 05/08/2001 11:58:51
On Tue, 8 May 2001, David Brownlee wrote:

> On Tue, 8 May 2001 mcmahill@mtl.mit.edu wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 8 May 2001, David Brownlee wrote:
> >
> > > 	citrix_ica has a distinfo.i386 and distinfo.sparc, while navigator
> > > 	keeps different architectures in the same distinfo file (and needs
> > > 	more care when rebuilding distinfos)
> > >
> > > 	Currently lintpkgsrc will miss the citrix_ica distinfos and
> > > 	incorrectly report the distfiles as unused. (This can obviously
> > > 	be fixed :)
> > >
> > > 	Can we standardise on one way to handle this, and which should
> > > 	it be?
> >
> >
> > the killer was the different patches needed....  i'm open to suggestions.
> 
> 	Hmm - are the patches incompatible, or are the scripts to patch
> 	just in a different location?
> 
> 	If the latter, have a pre-patch phase the creates a symlink to
> 	the file to patch...


there is a "solaris" subdir in one distfile and "linuxx" in the other, so
the file to be patched doesn't even exist on one arch or the other.

-Dan