On Dec 17, 2007 4:22 AM, Karolina Lindqvist <karolina.lindqvist@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > SUGGESTION 1: > Have a central repository for all the source files needed by archlinux, and > modify makepkg so that when the source cannot be found on the original place, > it is gotten from this backup repository. That way makepkg will always work > on a package. > > SUGGESTION 2: > Have a spider that goes through the abs tree, and check if every source file > is available. When a source is found missing on its original place, an email > is sent to the respective developer for action. Until he fixes the problem, > the backup source file repository will provide the source. We've actually discussed hosting the sources somewhere on our own servers, but nothing has come of it yet. > I understand the policy of archlinux, that it should work on the developers > machines, and that there is no big interest of expanding to anything else. > About the makepkg erroring out, on second thought I think it is a good idea. Well, no, that's not Arch's policy at all. The problem is, we're staffed by a handful of volunteer developers. We made the decision to be i686-optimized, and later on the decision to support x86_64, but there's only so much we can do, and so we stand by those decisions. At current, there are no plans to support i586 officially.
