is archcheck portgroup history?

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Aug 6, 2010, at 15:28, Bradley Giesbrecht wrote:

> On Aug 6, 2010, at 1:20 PM, Jeremy Lavergne wrote:
> 
>>> For ports installed earlier, MacPorts assumes they're ok; for this reason, the archcheck portgroup seems to still be necessary until such a time as all ports have been rebuilt with MacPorts 1.9, and we have no way to enforce that all users will do this.
>> 
>> Nothing stops us from adding a line of code that indicates a port without its arch recorded must be rebuilt.

I could be in favor of that, but would want to first ensure that the architecture that gets recorded in the registry is the one that got built by the port.


> Could we use lipo on it and append the registry rather then rebuild?

How would MacPorts know which file to lipo? Should it try all of them until it finds one that is a binary and use that? What if the port installs files that aren't all the same architecture?