[Slackbuilds-users] About aarch64 support support in TEMPLATE.info

[Ruben Schuller]

Hi!

2025-04-15 "B. Watson" <urchlay at slackware.uk>:

> This could be simpler than you think. Basically, all that's needed for
> *minimal* aarch64 support would be to allow the DOWNLOAD_aarch64 and
> MD5SUM_aarch64 keys in the .info file... and *ignore* them. The script
> that reads .info files and populates the database would just have to
> allow these keys to exist in the file, but not do anything with them.

Just my 2 cents on this: Why not add a file "$PRGNAM.$arch.info"
or something like this to scripts which are supported for the
respective architecture by their maintainers? These files would contain
the DOWNLOAD_$arch and MD5SUM_$arch lines (or maybe even REQUIRES in
case they differ?) for the respective architecture, just read this file
after the normal info file. No tool could break because the info files
suddenly contain new lines.

Cheers
Ruben