icu73

• Category: local-install/ – plain upstream AUR package, maintainer hinanoaira (not us). Same situation as [[icu72]]/[[icu77]]: a legacy-ICU shim we don’t maintain on AUR, unlike [[icu74]]/icu75/icu76.
• A stale /data/INSTALL/icu73 checkout already existed (dated Apr 2024, no .git – just loose PKGBUILD/patch/LICENSE/source tarball + already-built i486/i686/pentium4 packages, pinned at 73.2-1; current upstream AUR is now at 73.2-7, so this predates several upstream bumps). Unlike the usual local-install workflow (which always fresh-clones), the user explicitly wanted to republish the EXISTING pre-built packages as-is rather than rebuild against the newer upstream PKGBUILD:
  1. mv /data/INSTALL/icu73{,-old} (safety rename, standard workflow step).
  2. Signed + published the existing i486/i686/pentium4 (+debug) .pkg.tar.zst directly from icu73-old via repo_sign.sh/ repo_publish.sh (no rebuild).
  3. Moved icu73-old back to icu73 afterward per the user’s explicit follow-up (“so they don’t get lost”) – the rename was only ever meant as a transient safety step during the operation, not a permanent archival name.
• x86_64 was missing from the old build (never built for that arch originally). Built it separately in a fresh scratch dir (/data/INSTALL/icu73-x86_64, confirmed by name with the user) seeded with the same PKGBUILD/patch/LICENSE/source tarball copied from icu73 (avoiding re-downloading the ~81MB tarball), via REPO_BUILD_ONLY_ARCH=x86_64 scripts/repo_build_staged.sh /data/INSTALL/icu73-x86_64 (passthrough mode, outside arch/). Built clean, signed+published the same way, then moved the resulting .pkg.tar.zst/.sig/build logs into /data/INSTALL/icu73 alongside the other 3 arches and deleted the now-empty scratch dir.
• 2026-10-11 end state: all 4 arches (i486/i686/pentium4/x86_64, + debug packages) published, consolidated under /data/INSTALL/icu73, all signed. Version stays at the old local 73.2-1 – not upstream’s current 73.2-7; a real version bump was deliberately out of scope for this pass.
• Added to arch/scripts/install_only_packages.