Cygport-0.37.0-1 appends "noarch" to all mingw64 release packages
Jon Turney
jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk
Sun Mar 30 18:11:31 GMT 2025
On 30/03/2025 13:11, Carlo B. via Cygwin wrote:
> Hello,
> after upgrading to Cygport-0.37.0-1, I discovered that all binary
> packages created with MinGW-w64 have a "-noarch" suffix appended to
> their name.
> Binary and debuginfo packages are affected, source packages are not.
> This is an example output when I tried to refresh one of my packages:
>
> mingw64-x86_64-bzip2-1.0.8-1-noarch.hint
> mingw64-x86_64-bzip2-1.0.8-1-noarch.tar.xz
> mingw64-x86_64-bzip2-1.0.8-1-src.hint
> mingw64-x86_64-bzip2-1.0.8-1-src.tar.xz
>
> Is it normal or it is a bug?
This is an intentional change.
See https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin-announce/2025-March/012238.html
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