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

["'MOESSBAUER, Felix' via isar-users" <isar-users@googlegroups.com>]

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

> 
> 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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