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authorXavier Chantry <shiningxc@gmail.com>2009-08-19 18:35:32 +0200
committerDan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>2009-09-06 15:53:54 -0500
commit65c1f06be5a9c4bdb197b61563da7c2e28162392 (patch)
treecc715dc8a677a2568700a16dcac047f500c1a20e
parent5b27e78ba015a48baf2d3c8687fdf3084781f9c9 (diff)
Allow $arch to be used in Server
similarly to the $repo variable, Server can now contain $arch, which will be automatically replaced by the appropriate architecture. This allows us to have one universal mirrorlist file, for both i686 and x86_64, woohoo! Signed-off-by: Xavier Chantry <shiningxc@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>
-rw-r--r--doc/pacman.conf.5.txt6
-rw-r--r--etc/pacman.conf.in3
-rw-r--r--scripts/rankmirrors.py.in2
-rw-r--r--src/pacman/pacman.c17
4 files changed, 24 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/doc/pacman.conf.5.txt b/doc/pacman.conf.5.txt
index 59bed156..640e62bb 100644
--- a/doc/pacman.conf.5.txt
+++ b/doc/pacman.conf.5.txt
@@ -181,10 +181,12 @@ Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
During parsing, pacman will define the `$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
diff --git a/etc/pacman.conf.in b/etc/pacman.conf.in
index 929d38ba..fc841b70 100644
--- a/etc/pacman.conf.in
+++ b/etc/pacman.conf.in
@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@ Architecture = auto
# - repositories listed first will take precedence when packages
# have identical names, regardless of version number
# - URLs will have $repo replaced by the name of the current repo
+# - URLs will have $arch replaced by the name of the architecture
#
# Repository entries are of the format:
# [repo-name]
@@ -57,7 +58,7 @@ Architecture = auto
# servers immediately after the header and they will be used before the
# default mirrors.
#[core]
-#Server = ftp://ftp.example.com/foobar/$repo/os/i686/
+#Server = ftp://ftp.example.com/foobar/$repo/os/$arch/
# The file referenced here should contain a list of 'Server = ' lines.
#Include = @sysconfdir@/pacman.d/mirrorlist
diff --git a/scripts/rankmirrors.py.in b/scripts/rankmirrors.py.in
index 4b253b67..6bfa6612 100644
--- a/scripts/rankmirrors.py.in
+++ b/scripts/rankmirrors.py.in
@@ -156,6 +156,8 @@ if __name__ == "__main__":
# if the $repo var is used in the url, replace it by core
tempUrl = Template(serverUrl).safe_substitute(repo='core')
+ # if the $arch var is used in the url, replace it by i686
+ tempUrl = Template(tempUrl).safe_substitute(arch='i686')
# add @DBEXT@ to server name. the repo name is parsed
# from the mirror url; it is the third (or fourth) dir
diff --git a/src/pacman/pacman.c b/src/pacman/pacman.c
index 5fab247d..6e5147c5 100644
--- a/src/pacman/pacman.c
+++ b/src/pacman/pacman.c
@@ -897,7 +897,22 @@ static int _parseconfig(const char *file, const char *givensection,
}
} else if(strcmp(key, "Server") == 0) {
/* let's attempt a replacement for the current repo */
- char *server = strreplace(ptr, "$repo", section);
+ char *temp = strreplace(ptr, "$repo", section);
+ /* let's attempt a replacement for the arch */
+ const char *arch = alpm_option_get_arch();
+ char *server;
+ if(arch) {
+ server = strreplace(temp, "$arch", arch);
+ free(temp);
+ } else {
+ if(strstr(temp, "$arch")) {
+ pm_printf(PM_LOG_ERROR, _("The mirror '%s' contains the $arch"
+ " variable, but no Architecture is defined.\n"), ptr);
+ ret = 1;
+ goto cleanup;
+ }
+ server = temp;
+ }
if(alpm_db_setserver(db, server) != 0) {
/* pm_errno is set by alpm_db_setserver */