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| author | Xavier Chantry <shiningxc@gmail.com> | 2009-08-19 18:35:32 +0200 |
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| committer | Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org> | 2009-09-06 15:53:54 -0500 |
| commit | 65c1f06be5a9c4bdb197b61563da7c2e28162392 (patch) | |
| tree | cc715dc8a677a2568700a16dcac047f500c1a20e /doc | |
| parent | 5b27e78ba015a48baf2d3c8687fdf3084781f9c9 (diff) | |
Allow $arch to be used in Server
similarly to the $repo variable, Server can now contain $arch, which will be
automatically replaced by the appropriate architecture.
This allows us to have one universal mirrorlist file, for both i686 and x86_64,
woohoo!
Signed-off-by: Xavier Chantry <shiningxc@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/pacman.conf.5.txt | 6 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/pacman.conf.5.txt b/doc/pacman.conf.5.txt index 59bed156..640e62bb 100644 --- a/doc/pacman.conf.5.txt +++ b/doc/pacman.conf.5.txt @@ -181,10 +181,12 @@ Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist During parsing, pacman will define the `$repo` variable to the name of the current section. This is often utilized in files specified using the 'Include' -directive so all repositories can use the same mirrorfile. +directive so all repositories can use the same mirrorfile. pacman also defines +the `$arch` variable to the value of `Architecture`, so the same mirrorfile can +even be used for different architectures. -------- -Server = ftp://ftp.archlinux.org/$repo/os/arch +Server = ftp://ftp.archlinux.org/$repo/os/$arch -------- The order of repositories in the configuration files matters; repositories |