Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 11:41:22 -0500 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: Ken Smith <kensmith@buffalo.edu> Cc: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org>, src-committers@freebsd.org, Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@freebsd.org>, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, David Chisnall <theraven@freebsd.org>, TAKAHASHI Yoshihiro <nyan@freebsd.org>, Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org>, svn-src-head@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r227536 - in head: release share/man/man7 Message-ID: <201111171141.22648.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <1321542696.82271.31.camel@bauer.cse.buffalo.edu> References: <201111151849.pAFInR3K012609@svn.freebsd.org> <20111117145723.GB96475@FreeBSD.org> <1321542696.82271.31.camel@bauer.cse.buffalo.edu>
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On Thursday, November 17, 2011 10:11:36 am Ken Smith wrote: > On Thu, 2011-11-17 at 14:57 +0000, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 09:44:52AM -0500, Ken Smith wrote: > > > This is the problem we are trying to "solve": > > > > > > Supported TARGET/TARGET_ARCH pairs for world and kernel targets > > > amd64/amd64 > > > arm/arm > > > arm/armeb > > > i386/i386 > > > ia64/ia64 > > > mips/mipsel > > > mips/mipseb > > > mips/mips64el > > > mips/mips64eb > > > mips/mipsn32eb > > > pc98/i386 > > > powerpc/powerpc > > > powerpc/powerpc64 > > > sparc64/sparc64 > > > > As I see it, for every pair except pc98/i386, second part should be used. > > For pc98/i386, first (pc98). Problem solved. ;-) > > > > ./danfe > > > > I'd still sort of prefer no special cases. However ... > > For the ISO / memstick filenames we could just program in `uname -p` > and ask the pc98 builder to modify the filenames post-build. But > we still have the dual names needed for the FTP site layout. There > it needs to be fully automated in the installer. > > So, given it seemed like we're sort of stuck with having the dual > names appearing in other places combined with it never causing us > to have special cases and/or conflicts it seemed like just biting > the bullet and having them in the ISO / memstick filenames too ... > > Have I mentioned I don't like any of the options? :-/ I think collapsing down to one name if uname -m == uname -p is not that terrible and would preserve the existing layout for most of the current cases (only pc98 would change, yes)? -- John Baldwin
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