Hi

On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 11:34:11AM -0400, Neil Spring wrote:
> 
> On Jun 12, 2006, at 6:10 PM, Ola Lundqvist wrote:
> >>Although it was my mistake, I think it might be reasonable
> >>to warn when the dists/ (or at least incoming/) directory
> >>contains architectures not listed in the @architectures
> >>configuration variable.
> >
> >I fully agree. Maybe it should even reject such packages, or
> >what do you think?
> 
> Ola,
> 
> From my perspective, I think that the architectures configuration  
> variable could be automatically determined from the union of the  
> dists/*/binary-* directories and contents of incoming/, or perhaps  
> (if you think there's a reason to exclude architectures present in  
> those directories) automatically determined only if  left unconfigured.

This would actually be a bit trickier than it first looks and the
reason for that is that these directories are created using that
variable... So we end up in a chicken and egg problem...

> If you do decide that rejecting is cleaner,  323614 (explain why  
> package goes into REJECT/) seems relevant, though I'd bias toward a  
> log file in the reject directory explaining specifics over man page  
> explanations of the possible reasons.  I have some .debs in a reject  
> directory and I haven't had the time to figure out why.

I'll figure out some good way to handle this.

> Thanks again -- I appreciate debarchiver and your attention.

You are welcome and thanks for the cheer.

Regards,

// Ola

> -neil
> 

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