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
