On 3/3/21 11:23 am, Eli Schwartz via arch-dev-public wrote:
On 3/2/21 8:10 PM, Allan McRae via arch-dev-public wrote:
On 3/3/21 11:03 am, Eli Schwartz via arch-dev-public wrote:
I wonder, might this be an interesting time to reintroduce multiple architectures?
We used to offer i686 and x86_64.
Maybe now we could offer x86_64, x86_64-v2, and x86_64-v3. Or go right to -v4.
That is a possibility that has been discussed over the years. It was previously decided that we needed other architecture builds to be automated, and thus automated package signing. This becomes a possibility once we manage to sign databases (which will hit a decade of pacman support in October!).
I wasn't on the packaging team back when i686 was supported, so I don't know about the experience firsthand. But I thought it was just "run extra-*-build twice and commit the result"?
I assume you also test the packages you build... That was the main issue with i686. So it could be brought back, but is a lot of manual effort for something that should be automated. Allan