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Magallón a écrit : +><i> 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>><i> +</I>><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> > > +</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> +</I>><i> I was just thinking of people navigating the tree structure looking for what +</I>><i> to download and install. Directory names have not to be the same as RPMs +</I>><i> architecture, isn't it ? And is more neutral, you can decide you build the +</I>><i> distro for Pentium3 at least and dont have to change the folder names... ;) +</I>><i> +</I> +This will have a impact on the usability of the $ARCH keyword in url for +urpmi. Ie, the name must be derived from what we use for name of arch in +rpm, given the way this feature was coded. + +Which in turn is arbitrary, iirc, but we may need to keep compatibility +with previous mandriva version, as we plan to offer a upgrade path. + +-- +Michael Scherer + +</PRE> + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="001326.html">[Mageia-dev] Mirror tree structure +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="001327.html">[Mageia-dev] Mirror tree structure +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#1335">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#1335">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#1335">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#1335">[ 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> |