Re: [PATCH v3 0/4] Only build arch=all package from -native variant

[Zhihang Wei <wzh@ilbers.de>]

On 5/26/26 11:32, 'MOESSBAUER, Felix' via isar-users wrote:
> On Wed, 2026-05-06 at 14:19 +0200, Felix Moessbauer wrote:
>> Architecture-all packages often cannot be built in cross mode, as their
>> dependencies cannot be resolved for the host architecture. Therefore, we
>> need to dispatch the build of arch=all packages from the target recipe
>> to the -native variant. This introduces some side effects:
>>
>> - A mixed arch=(all|any) package needs to be built twice: once in
>>    cross mode for the arch=any parts, and once in -native mode for the
>>    arch=all parts (p2).
>> - Dependencies on arch=all packages from mixed source packages need to
>>    be modeled so that consumers of a package do not need to be aware of
>>    this distinction (p2).
>> - The arch=all packages must be available in the apt repository used
>>    during target installation (p3).
>>
>> Since we now ensure that arch=all packages are only built once, we can
>> safely revert the repo-split patch. Moreover, we must do so to make the
>> arch=all packages available during target installation.
>>
>> PS: As our multiarch code history contains numerous fix tags,
>> I kindly ask everyone to test this series carefully.
> Hi,
>
> are there any news on this one? I'm running this patch series for some
> time on various layers without any negative impact.
>
> However, I also did not receive any feedback - neither positive nor
> negative yet.
>
> Best regards,
> Felix

Hi,

Thanks for reporting that you haven't seen any negative impact during 
testing.
We can apply the patch now.

Zhihang

>> Changes since v2:
>>
>> - use -archall suffix instead of -all
>> - improve commit message of p2 to better reflect the changes
>>
>> Changes since v1:
>>
>> - model dependencies to arch=all packages via DEPENDS / PROVIDES instead
>>    of an explicit dependency to -native.
>> - add revert of repo-split patch
>> - add testcase
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Felix Moessbauer
>>
>> Felix Moessbauer (4):
>>    mark cowsay package as architecture all
>>    sbuild: do not build arch all packages on cross
>>    Revert "Split up isar-apt into distro-arch specific instances"
>>    add test for mixed arch all arch any packages
>>
>>   RECIPE-API-CHANGELOG.md                         | 17 +++++++++++++++++
>>   meta-isar/recipes-app/cowsay/cowsay_git.bb      |  2 ++
>>   .../recipes-app/test-all-any/files/control      | 16 ++++++++++++++++
>>   .../recipes-app/test-all-any/test-all-any.bb    | 13 +++++++++++++
>>   meta/classes-recipe/dpkg.bbclass                |  3 ++-
>>   meta/classes-recipe/multiarch.bbclass           |  4 ++++
>>   meta/conf/bitbake.conf                          |  4 ++--
>>   testsuite/citest.py                             |  3 ++-
>>   8 files changed, 58 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>>   create mode 100644 meta-test/recipes-app/test-all-any/files/control
>>   create mode 100644 meta-test/recipes-app/test-all-any/test-all-any.bb
>>
>> -- 
>> 2.53.0

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