On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 12:51 PM, Xavier <shiningxc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 11:36 AM, Allan McRae <allan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> 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 >> >> > > And the commit just next to it will check if the architecture of the > package you install is correct, if you set the new Architecture option > in pacman.conf . > http://projects.archlinux.org/pacman.git/commit/?id=5b27e78ba015a48baf2d3c8687fdf3084781f9c9 Ah, great, so that means I just might have pacman save me from my stupidity in the future :-) /M -- Magnus Therning (OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4) magnus＠therning．org Jabber: magnus＠therning．org http://therning.org/magnus identi.ca|twitter: magthe
