Hi,

On Tue, 2006-04-11 at 19:42:21 -0700, Erast Benson wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-04-12 at 05:15 +0300, Guillem Jover wrote:
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ /usr/share/misc/config.sub i386-solaris
> > i386-pc-solaris2
> 
> And we need 2.11, to distinguish 8,7,9,10,11,12 releases.
> But I guess, presented dpkg-architecture.pl patch should take care..
> So, yes this might work, but not always (see below)

Why do you need the 2.11, would another release imply a new Debian
architecture, are the kernels incompatible, the libc etc?
And I don't see anything relevant below.

> The problem is that on sparc this normalization is broken:
>
> -bash-3.00# uname -a
> SunOS dot92 5.11 snv_31 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Blade-1000
> -bash-3.00# ./config.sub sparc-solaris2.11
> sparc-unknown-solaris2.11
>
> but we expect:
>
> sparc-sun-solaris2.11
>
> as Mac outlined in previous e-mail.

Well if config.guess is producing unwanted output, you should be
fixing it instead of working it around in all other programs.

> But if your concern is mostly about "cleanness" of ostable, I think we
> can patch dpkg-architecture.pl some more instead. And since it is
> already patched, than I assume it will be cleaner, indeed.

The idea is to reduce the special casing in dpkg-architecture not to
add any more to it.

regards,
guillem


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