Subject: Re: distinfo files for multiple architectures
To: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
From: Alistair Crooks <agc@pkgsrc.org>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 05/08/2001 15:48:54
On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 11:02:51AM +0100, 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?
> 
> -- 
> 		David/absolute		-- www.netbsd.org: No hype required --
> 

I'd much prefer it if we had one distinfo file, without the arch
suffix.  If this means we have to be more careful when upgrading
packages, then so be it.

Regards,
Alistair