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
