[pacman-dev] architecture warn/check

[Dan McGee]

On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 6:22 AM, Allan McRae<allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
> Roman Kyrylych wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 02:18, Allan McRae<allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Dan McGee wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> 1. Making something impossible is never good (this is mostly the
>>>> "unforeseen difficulties" excuse)
>>>> 2. "probably" leaves a lot of wiggle room
>>>> 3. If your name is Allan McRae (or anyone else) and you run an x86_64
>>>> kernel in an i686 userspace
>>>> 4. If your name is <whoever> and you run random i686 package on a
>>>> mostly-x86_64 machine
>>>>
>>>> Probably more, and some of these are weak, but there is enough of a
>>>> reason to allow it that I think it would be silly to lay down the law
>>>> for people that may need to circumvent the check.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> And we all know #3 is the most important! :)
>>>
>>> That said, I like this idea as long as it can be disabled.  I have seen
>>> people accidentally stuff there systems by doing this on many occasions.
>>>  Although, it does fall into the category of stopping stupid people and
>>> we
>>> do have a -Rd option...
>>>
>>
>> Well, I've managed to install i686 pacman-git (replacing old pacman)
>> on my x86_64 system by making a mistake in repo name. :-P
>>
>
> So, you seem a good candidate to do the actual bug report opening so this
> idea does not get lost!  :D

I did start some preliminary hacking last night on this idea, so it
probably won't get lost, but yeah, a bug report would be a good idea.

-Dan