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

[Allan McRae]

On 3/3/21 11:23 am, Eli Schwartz via arch-dev-public wrote:
> On 3/2/21 8:10 PM, 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!).
> 
> 
> I wasn't on the packaging team back when i686 was supported, so I don't
> know about the experience firsthand. But I thought it was just "run
> extra-*-build twice and commit the result"?

I assume you also test the packages you build...  That was the main
issue with i686.  So it could be brought back, but is a lot of manual
effort for something that should be automated.

Allan