On 3/3/21 11:56 am, Filipe Laíns wrote:
On Wed, 2021-03-03 at 11:10 +1000, 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!).
Allan
Is it possible to get pacman to allow us to enable multiple architectures at once and prioritize one of them? This way we could just do x86_64 and the maintainer could opt-in into x86_64-* if it makes sense for the package.
This would not introduce new effort to maintainers and would solve the issue quite nicely IMO.
No it is not possible in pacman (without abusing fall through when failing to download a package from a server). Allan