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

[David C. Rankin]

On 12/14/2009 04:16 AM, 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.
>
> /M
>

Mangus,

	I feel your pain. I did the same thing not too long ago and it about drove me 
crazy before I figured out what happened. I don't know if it is plausible, but 
it would sure help protect us from ourselves if in the preinstall dependency 
checks for conflicts, etc., pacman would scan the list of packages to be 
installed and compare the architecture to the system. Then if conflicting 
package architectures were found, pacman could just dump the list saying 
something like:

The following list of packages were prepared for (i586/x86_64) architecture 
and you are prepared to install them on this system with (machine 
architecture). Do you really want to do this? (yes/no): ___

	I don't know if you can quickly get the package architecture by some other 
method than substring extraction on the file name, but that in itself is 
simple enough. Food for thought :p


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