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[feature] install system packages without architecture

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Currently, recipes with arch settings trying to install system packages always install the system package with architecture matching the profile. This makes xorg/system fail on some distros (alma, Fedora and Centos), because some of the system packages do not have an architecture: the failures:

these two system packages have no arch, cf!

We could consider adding a method like _SystemPackageManagerTool.install_archless(...) ? Or an automatic fallback to archless if there is no existing package for the setting’s arch ?

I’ve read the CONTRIBUTING guide.

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Created a year ago
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czoidocommented, Nov 2, 2022

We close this, although we know that is not completely addressed in https://github.com/conan-io/conan/pull/12349 There’s a workaround to install packages without architecture using:

Apt(self, arch_names={}).install(["archless-package"], update=True, check=True)

But I’ll open a new issue to improve UX for this.

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ericLemanissiercommented, Oct 19, 2022

Actually, xtrans and xkeyboard-config system packages have no arch on all the system package managers handled by conan, so I created xtrans/system and xkeyboard-config/system recipes without arch setting. a dedicated install_archless is not actually needed