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>

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.
 
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-Server = ftp://ftp.archlinux.org/$repo/os/arch
+Server = ftp://ftp.archlinux.org/$repo/os/$arch
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 The order of repositories in the configuration files matters; repositories