[Mageia-dev] Mirror tree structure

Fri Oct 22 00:26:48 CEST 2010

On Thu, 21 Oct 2010 17:16:06 +0100, Buchan Milne <bgmilne at multilinks.com> wrote:
+
+> On Thursday, 21 October 2010 06:37:37 Olivier Thauvin wrote:
+> > * J.A. Magallón (jamagallon at ono.com) wrote:
+> > > On Wed, 20 Oct 2010 18:34:24 +0200, Olivier Thauvin 
+...
+> > 
+> > > - could be the arch names more uniform ? in my personal scripts/setups
+> > > 
+> > >   I use x86-32 and x86-64.
+> 
+> Is x86-32 a valid architecture for rpm etc.? While uniformity might be nice, 
+> unfortunately vendors don't necessarily choose uniform architecure names, and 
+> it might be better to match the repo structure to values that can be 
+> determined directly (and not heuristcally) . 
+> 
+> I've also never seen 'uname -m' report x86-32 or x86_32.
+> 
+> > >   Moreover, perhaps in a not so near future some
+> > >   adventurous soul builds Mageia on ARM or Sparc, so why not sort things
+> > >   like
+> > >   
+> > >     distrib/cauldron/srpm
+> > >     distrib/cauldron/x86/32/iso
+> > >     
+> > >                            /rpm
+> > >                         
+> > >                         /64
+> > >                     
+> > >                     /arm/32
+> > >                     
+> > >                         /64
+> 
+> I don't know if memory address space is a useful differentiator here, as 
+> features differ substantially in different ARM cores of the same family or 
+> architecture version. E.g., Fedora has an 'armv5tel' architecture, N900 ships 
+> .deb's with 'armel' as the architecture. See 
+> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architecture
+> 
+> > >                     
+> > >                     /sparc/32
+> > >                     
+> > >                           /64
+> 
+> AFAIK, the valid architecture names for sparc are sparc,sparc64,sparcv9.
+> 
+
+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:
+
+http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86
+http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86_64
+
+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
+