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<H1>[Mageia-dev] Mirror tree structure</H1>
<B>J.A. Magallón</B>
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<I>Fri Oct 22 00:26:48 CEST 2010</I>
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<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...
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