On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 2:04 PM, Dan McGee <dpmcgee@gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 1:14 PM, Thomas Bächler <thomas@archlinux.org> wrote:
That would leave us with: - kernel x86_64 - initrd x86_64 - kernel i686 - initrd i686 - packages core-any - packages core-i686 - packages core-x86_64 - squashfs base system i686 - maybe overlay-any
All 3 of the "packages" things can go in one big directory anyway- the filenames are all unique since we put the architecture in the package filenames. That would make the mounting process a lot less complex as nothing would need to change between what kernel, processor, etc. you are booting up on or want to install. Only the installer would care.
Eh, maybe not. We'd have two "core.db.tar.gz" files that'd overlap. It's doable, just a little more hairy than it seems. Something like core-i686.db.tar.gz and core-x86_64.db.tar.gz would need [core-*] sections in the pacman.conf