On Fri, 2006-05-12 at 01:49 +0300, Guillem Jover wrote: > 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.
Correct, Debian architecture doesn't care. But, applications do care. For instance, things might be layout differently in 2.10 and upcoming 2.11 architectures, which might need required for some apps to do things a bit differently too. So, it is not about Debian architecture, it is all about how we will affect existing apps. We obviously don't want fix all existing apps, instead we want just tune up Debian architecture parameters once and for all. > > 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. I think we've got disconnected on this one. config.guess often shipped withing app itself as a hard copy, so it will not be possible to fix autoconf package for all. > > 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. Any other solutions? -- Erast -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
