[Popcon-developers] popcon and multiarch

[Bill Allombert]

On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 09:19:36AM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> [Bill Allombert]
> > Hello Petter and other interested people,
> > 
> > We need to adapt popcon for multiarch.  Do you have experience with
> > multiarch ?
> 
> I have no experience with multiarch so far.
> 
> > We need to decide how popcon will handle it, in particular what to do
> > when a package is installed for two different architectures, and how
> > we set the ARCH field.
> 
> I guess we might need to change the format, and provide information on
> all archietectures of installed packages.  The collector then need to
> cope with the fact that a machine can use more than one architecture.
> No idea how to best do this.

I am not sure I want to open this particular can of worm. I do not see much
value in reporting the architecture of a package.

In any case, I plan to release popcon 1.54 as it is, and then fix multiarch support in
1.55.

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <ballombe at debian.org>

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