Recently I have been tinkering and learning about YAML driven auto-generated ebuilds on Funtoo. Specifically, I have created a new app-metrics/prometheus-bin package for Funtoo users to explore. A nice thing upstream maintainers of Prometheus do is they provide tons of multi-arch pre-compiled packages in their releases. It got me thinking, if autogen YAML supported the ability to define a set multi-arch GitHub release tarballs, one could theoretically create an instant multi-arch autogen ebuild from certain GitHub released software! That would be very fun and neat for rapid releases across different Funtoo architectures. Also, I think it would showcase the great flexibility of the autogen technology.

Another source of inspiration of this idea: I really want to be able test some of these new Funtoo auto-generated packages instantly on ARM based systems like Raspberry Pi (I actually have some Turing Pi v1 boards that I want to get Funtoo with Prometheus running on).

I have documented a list of examples of upstream multi-arch GitHub Releases, specifically for compiled languages that have multi-arch assets attached to their releases to show different patterns upstream providers use for their architecture names.