Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-buildservice (375 mails)

[Vladimir Nadvornik <nadvornik@xxxxxxx>]

On čt 24. dubna 2008, Adrian Schröter wrote:
> On Thursday 24 April 2008 00:37:22 wrote Thomas Anders:
> > Thomas Anders wrote on 2008-04-02:
> > > While OBS automatically creates Packages[.gz] files for Debian, it
> > > looks like it fails to pay attention to the fact that there can be both
> > > i386 and amd64 versions for the same package name. Currently, it just
> > > lists *one* of them (picking randomly, depending on which one builds
> > > first?) in the Packages file:
> >
> > Any feedback on this problem?
>
> Can you explain us, how we should create the Packages data to solve this ?
>
> I fear debian can not handle this at all and we need to setup complete
> seperate trees and copying the "noarch" packages into both ?

Hi,

I talked about it with Martin Stolle, who also suffers this problem and got 
the following feedback.

Vladimir

On ne 27. dubna 2008, Martin Stolle wrote:
> > Are you sure that the file can contain packages for both architectures?
> > Is there any documentation of the file format?
>
> So I looked around in the Debian documentation, and there seems to be
> the Repositories HOWTO that describes how to set up a repository and
> talks a little about the file.  They seem to imply that the file can
> contain files from multiple architectures.
>
> http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/repository-howto/repository-howto
>
> In the HOWTO, they describe two kinds of repositories:  Automatic and
> Trivial.  The Automatic repositories are split up by distributions,
> architectures and may contain a common "pool" for files to be shared
> between distributions.  "Trivial" repositories only have separate
> directories for binary and source, although even that doesn't seem to be
> necessary.  Basically, the "Packages.gz" file needs to be found and in
> there the correct path to all the packages is given.  Example for a
> simple repository:
>
> http://debian.o-hand.com/gutsy/
>
> Notice that their package file contains "i386" as well as "All"
> architectures.
>
> Martin


 
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