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Re: Debian GNU/${OS}



On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 10:53:58AM -0500, Chad Miller wrote:
> 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):

a) we can't just willy nilly change the name of the ports. This breaks
   upgrades, not to mention confuses users.
b) A better solution that has been discussed is to use:

	Architecture: sparc
	OS: Linux

Which makes much more sense, but has yet to be implemented.

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