Re: Port Name: A Vote
Chris Cheney <ccheney@cheney.cx> writes:
> On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 06:26:25PM -0700, Steven L. Johnson wrote:
>> marc.miller@amd.com wrote:
>>
>> >Our concern is that by choosing AMD64 as the port name, it could forfeit
>> >its compliance with the x86-64 LSB.
>> >
>> At first glance that seems unlikely, especially since the latest docs
>> call the
>> architecture AMD64, not x86-64. I refer to LSB-Core-AMD64. I don't
>> understand how using the same name for the Debian arch conflicts.
>> http://www.linuxbase.org/spec/specs.php
>
> Refer to LSB-Packaging-AMD64 instead. We could still use amd64 if we can
> somehow accept installing x86_64 lsb rpm's in Debian though (I think).
>
> Chris
rpm / alien would have to handle that. Not problems on rpm I guess and
it should be relatively minor to make alien rewrite the Architecture
field.
MfG
Goswin
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