[Dev] [PATCH] libretools: fix i686 gpg signature failures

[Luke Shumaker]

On Wed, 21 Mar 2018 03:56:19 -0400,
Andreas Grapentin wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 12:58:28AM -0600, Isaac David wrote:
> > more precisely, Arch's arch=(any) packages may override
> > existing ALARM or Arch32 pkgnames -- they are given priority
> > and all architectures are meant to use archlinux-keyring.
> > i don't expect this scenario to surface often in practice,
> > since both ALARM and Arch32 follow Arch, not the other way
> > around.
> > 
> > on the other hand, ALARM and Arch32's arch=(any) packages aren't
> > allowed to override Arch's arch=(any) stuff, nor each other's.
> > 
> > this is the relevant code:
> > 
> > https://git.parabola.nu/packages/dbscripts.git/tree/db-import-pkg?id=78fd5a0ca15cedc369ffd6c8035fd573ca253d76#n124
> > https://git.parabola.nu/packages/dbscripts.git/tree/db-import-pkg?id=78fd5a0ca15cedc369ffd6c8035fd573ca253d76#n304
> 
> Isn't this asking for trouble when arch32 or alarm make significant
> changes to an -any package, required for it to function correctly on the
> respective platforms?

If significant changes are needed to make it function on a different
architecture, then it shouldn't be an arch=(any) package.

> This might never happen though, so it's probably okay, but one of these
> days we should probably check for this, to be safe :)

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Happy hacking,
Luke Shumaker