Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 17:18:12 +0200 From: Andriy Gapon <avg@FreeBSD.org> To: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ABI/architecture identification for packages Message-ID: <4F689FB4.9050705@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20120320143932.GB9629@azathoth.lan> References: <20120319213508.GA1692@azathoth.lan> <20120320091935.GF1692@azathoth.lan> <20120320102008.GH2358@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> <CAPJF9wkWFs46mh4BSXjxkyw-c6qV3FiChBC_PLE4Oj-EtKnxig@mail.gmail.com> <4F687624.9090604@gmail.com> <20120320143932.GB9629@azathoth.lan>
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on 20/03/2012 16:39 Baptiste Daroussin said the following: > On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 07:20:52AM -0500, Chuck Burns wrote: >> We should probably pad the version number, and shorten things up.. >> similar to: >> >> package-1.2-fbsd09.1-x86.pkg >> package-1.2-fbsd09.1-x64.pkg >> package-1.2-fbsd09.1-ppc.pkg >> package-1.2-fbsd09.1-ppc64.pkg >> package-1.2-fbsd09.1-arm.pkg >> >> For app "Package" version 1.2, on FreeBSD 9.1 >> drop the .1 for .0 versions. >> >> The reason for the padding is to help with sorting, at least until >> freebsd 100.0 comes out. :P >> >> Chuck Burns >> > > I'm not on changing the package name, this information will be in the manifest. > > the packagename will remain name-version.txz So no plans for cross-arch package repos? :) IMO, it could be useful to reflect arch metadata in the package name. BTW, some packaging systems also have a "noarch" indicator for packages that contain purely stuff like documentation or images (or shell scripts, etc). -- Andriy Gapon
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