is archcheck portgroup history?

[Bradley Giesbrecht]

On Aug 6, 2010, at 1:38 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

> 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?

How does it use lipo now?