[arch-general] I know of $repo, is there a $arch too?

[Allan McRae]

Magnus Therning wrote:
> This is the second time I'm being stupid when modifying my mirrorlist
> and I by accident put in a i686 repo on a 64-bit machine.  I can
> report that running 32-bit sudo on a 64-bit machine is fraught with
> problems :-)
> 
> So, just to work around my stupidity I was wondering if it is possible
> to put something like $arch in the mirrorlist, so I can stop writing
> out i686/x86_64?  That would at least take care of this problem for
> the system repos.
> 

Not yet.  here will be in pacman-3.4:
http://projects.archlinux.org/pacman.git/commit/?id=65c1f06b