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Re: [ACTION REQUIRED] ARCH=noarch uploads with cygport 0.22.0
- From: "Dr. Volker Zell" <dr dot volker dot zell at oracle dot com>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2016 21:38:38 +0200
- Subject: Re: [ACTION REQUIRED] ARCH=noarch uploads with cygport 0.22.0
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- References: <9de6f042-3510-ef4c-9c2d-90f354244691 at cygwin dot com>
>>>>> Yaakov Selkowitz writes:
> Package Maintainers,
> cygport 0.22.0 is on its way to the mirrors. With this release, and thanks to
> Jon Turney's continuing work on calm (the replacement for upset which generates
> setup.ini), packages marked ARCH=noarch will be uploaded once under the
> /noarch/release hierarchy instead of into each of /x86/release and
> /x86_64/release. This change is intended to save disk space and bandwidth for
> both sourceware and our mirrors.
> A package should be marked ARCH=noarch IF AND ONLY IF *all* subpackages thereof
> do not contain anything compiled with the *native* gcc, and the file contents
> are (or can be) 100% identical for x86 and x86_64. Examples include, but are not
> limited to, packages which contain only:
Please move mine:
ghostscript-fonts-other
ghostscript-fonts-std
initscripts
texi2html
Ciao
Volker