[arch-dev-public] RFC: Use x86_64-v2 architecture

[Filipe Laíns]

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.

Cheers,
Filipe Laíns
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