On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 7:54 AM, Thomas Bächler
Am 21.06.2010 14:57, schrieb Dan McGee:
OK, new -2 release in testing with the following changes, I'd like signoffs for real this time around: * We now have manpages * Fix optdepends * Patch the above mentioned strip libraries issue with patch from git so it is not disastrous
There is also a new pacman-mirrorlist package in testing with the following change: * Move to multi-arch and use $arch variable in the list
Please ensure it works with the new pacman; it will not be moving before it.
-Dan
Big Bad Signoff for it all.
One thing I noticed though: If the Architecture option is missing in pacman.conf, pacman will not recognize the $arch substitution.
Wouldn't it be more intuitive to have 'Architecture = auto' as the default and use 'Architecture = none' to disable the feature?
The manpage explains our reasoning why pretty clearly. Architecture = auto | i686 | x86_64 | ... If set, pacman will only allow installation of packages of the given architecture (e.g. i686, x86_64, etc). The special value auto will use the system architecture, provided by in “uname -m”. If unset, no architecture checks are made. NOTE: packages with the special architecture any can always be installed, as they are meant to be architecture independent. -Dan