Raul Miller writes in email to me:
> I presume you're familiar with the gnu conventions for labelling
> target/host architectures? [e.g. i486-unknown-linux]
>
> If not, I'd like to draw your attention to them.
Yes, I am, thanks.
Do people think the architecture names as handled by dpkg should
(Moved to debian-devel)
Raul Miller writes ("Re: FTP Installation & Package Naming Conventions"):
> If you lose track of the architecture on an executable, you can use
> 'file' to figure things out. I suppose it would be nice to have some
> similar mechanism for
brian white writes ("Re: FTP Installation & Package Naming Conventions "):
> >brian white writes ("Re: FTP Installation & Package Naming Conventions "):
> >> Also, while the versions are not choosen by Debian, the format in which
> >> they are
, but this is probably not necessary.
I agree, and in any case this would be a lot more work, because I
don't currently scan the msdos tree.
brian white writes ("Re: FTP Installation & Package Naming Conventions "):
> How about another field in "Packages-Master"
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