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

[Allan McRae]

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