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feat: allow building on other compatible architectures

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Project
craft-application
Number
#1027
Type
pull request
State
merged
Author
lengau
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Current evaluation

Merged. Enables cross-architecture builds via CRAFT_BUILD_ON. Approved by two reviewers with all CI checks passing. Modifies ten files to support compatible packaging. Follow-up work tracked in PR #1040.

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This lets craft-application build on a different architecture as long as it's compatible with the provider. CRAFT-4992 This PR is built atop #1030. - [x] Have you followed the guidelines for contributing? - [x] Have you signed the [CLA](http://www.ubuntu.com/legal/contributors/)? - [x] Have you successfully run `make lint && make test`? - [x] Have you added an entry to the changelog (`docs/reference/changelog.rst`)? ---

Evaluation history

Date Model Scores Action Summary
qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b — — Merged. Enables cross-architecture builds via CRAFT_BUILD_ON. Approved by two reviewers with all CI checks passing. Modifies ten files to support compatible packaging. Follow-up work tracked in PR #1040.
qwen3.6-35b-a3b-mtp-q6 — — Merged. Enables building on compatible architectures by overriding the native host's build_on via configuration or environment variables. Allows explicit architecture targeting during packaging. Follow-up changes are tracked in PR #1040.
qwen3.6-35b-a3b-mtp-q6 — — Merged. Enables craft-application to build on compatible architectures by overriding the native host target via CRAFT_BUILD_ON configuration. Successfully integrated, with PR #1040 opened for subsequent improvements.

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