Re: Opteron support in dpkg

[Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@raw.no>]

On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 05:58:27PM +0200, Oliver M. Bolzer wrote:
| To summarize some arguments:
| 
| x86_64
| 
|  + used by kernel  (x86_64)
|  + matches arch string (x86_64-linux-gnu)
|  + used by SuSE, Fedora
|  - potential problems with .deb filenames (apt and dpkg seem OK, how
|    about wanna-build and the archive maintenance scripts ?)
|  - current archive needs to be totally redone

How would you solve the problem of kernel-image-x86_64-2.6.6?  That's a
name disallowed by policy.

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Tollef Fog Heen                                                        ,''`.
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