David C. Rankin wrote:
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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