Hi, all. I'm sure this has been discussed in the past, but it's tickling an itch of mine now, so I thought I'd dredge it back up for discussion.... (Flames welcome.) The Debian GNU/FBSD and GNU/Hurd ports are (IIRC) screwed in that the we assume Linux kernels and only differentiate hardware architectures on our software management scheme. Isn't woody a perfect place to make the changes to support repository structures with top-level symlinks supporting the current structure, but making the repository like so (not literally): alpha ->linux-alpha arm ->linux-arm hppa ->linux-hppa i386 ->linux-i386 m68k ->linux-m68k mips ->linux-mips mipsel ->linux-mipsel powerpc ->linux-powerpc sh ->linux-sh sparc ->linux-sparc linux-alpha/ linux-arm/ linux-hppa/ linux-i386/ linux-m68k/ linux-mips/ linux-mipsel/ linux-powerpc/ linux-sh/ linux-sparc/ fbsd-alpha/ fbsd-i386/ hurd-i386/ <- already exists!? sunos-i386/ sunos-sparc/ Could woody be the first nonexclusively-Linux Debian release? - chad -- Chad Miller <cmiller@surfsouth.com> URL: http://web.chad.org/ (GPG) "Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced". First corollary to Clarke's Third Law (Jargon File, v4.2.0, 'magic')
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