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Magallón</B> + <A HREF="mailto:mageia-dev%40mageia.org?Subject=Re%3A%20%5BMageia-dev%5D%20Mirror%20tree%20structure&In-Reply-To=%3C20101022002648.143579f3%40werewolf.home%3E" + TITLE="[Mageia-dev] Mirror tree structure">jamagallon at ono.com + </A><BR> + <I>Fri Oct 22 00:26:48 CEST 2010</I> + <P><UL> + + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="001335.html">[Mageia-dev] Mirror tree structure +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#1326">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#1326">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#1326">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#1326">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + <HR> +<!--beginarticle--> +<PRE>On Thu, 21 Oct 2010 17:16:06 +0100, Buchan Milne <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">bgmilne at multilinks.com</A>> wrote: + +><i> On Thursday, 21 October 2010 06:37:37 Olivier Thauvin wrote: +</I>><i> > * J.A. Magallón (<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">jamagallon at ono.com</A>) wrote: +</I>><i> > > On Wed, 20 Oct 2010 18:34:24 +0200, Olivier Thauvin +</I>... +><i> > +</I>><i> > > - could be the arch names more uniform ? in my personal scripts/setups +</I>><i> > > +</I>><i> > > I use x86-32 and x86-64. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Is x86-32 a valid architecture for rpm etc.? While uniformity might be nice, +</I>><i> unfortunately vendors don't necessarily choose uniform architecure names, and +</I>><i> it might be better to match the repo structure to values that can be +</I>><i> determined directly (and not heuristcally) . +</I>><i> +</I>><i> I've also never seen 'uname -m' report x86-32 or x86_32. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> > > Moreover, perhaps in a not so near future some +</I>><i> > > adventurous soul builds Mageia on ARM or Sparc, so why not sort things +</I>><i> > > like +</I>><i> > > +</I>><i> > > distrib/cauldron/srpm +</I>><i> > > distrib/cauldron/x86/32/iso +</I>><i> > > +</I>><i> > > /rpm +</I>><i> > > +</I>><i> > > /64 +</I>><i> > > +</I>><i> > > /arm/32 +</I>><i> > > +</I>><i> > > /64 +</I>><i> +</I>><i> I don't know if memory address space is a useful differentiator here, as +</I>><i> features differ substantially in different ARM cores of the same family or +</I>><i> architecture version. E.g., Fedora has an 'armv5tel' architecture, N900 ships +</I>><i> .deb's with 'armel' as the architecture. See +</I>><i> <A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architecture">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architecture</A> +</I>><i> +</I>><i> > > +</I>><i> > > /sparc/32 +</I>><i> > > +</I>><i> > > /64 +</I>><i> +</I>><i> AFAIK, the valid architecture names for sparc are sparc,sparc64,sparcv9. +</I>><i> +</I> +I was just thinking of people navigating the tree structure looking for what +to download and install. Directory names have not to be the same as RPMs +architecture, isn't it ? And is more neutral, you can decide you build the +distro for Pentium3 at least and dont have to change the folder names... ;) + +And, btw, what brain-damaged mind got the names i386 and x86_64 ? Solaris on +x86 uses i86pc (arch -k). Somebody should try to push upstream (in rpm, perhaps) +a decent naming scheme [x86,x86-32] - x86-64, [sparc,sparc-32] - sparc-64. +You said that fedora on ARM uses esoteric arch codes, couldn't be possible +to use x86-32 and try to get it into upstream RPM ? + +Looking for that info (where that thing was born), I found that this naming +scheme (x86-32,x86-64) is even described in Wikipedia: + +<A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86</A> +<A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86_64">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86_64</A> + +so it looks not so insane after all... + +-- +J.A. Magallon <jamagallon()ono!com> \ Software is like sex: + \ It's better when it's free +</PRE> + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="001335.html">[Mageia-dev] Mirror tree structure +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#1326">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#1326">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#1326">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#1326">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">More information about the Mageia-dev +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |