Re: Opteron support in dpkg
Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> writes:
> * Stephen Frost (sfrost@snowman.net) wrote:
>> There is concern from dpkg upstream (as mentioned in the email below)
>> that we're not decided upon what the Opteron support in dpkg should
>> look like. This is a call for patches to add Opteron support to dpkg
>> which we will then attempt to come to consensus on as the 'porters' to
>> the architecture. Once a consensus on a patch is made we will
>> forward it to dpkg upstream for inclusion.
>
> Personally, my preference is to go with whatever produces:
>
> dpkg --print-architecture = amd64
> dpkg --print-gnu-architecture = x86-64 (or x86_64, whichever is right)
>
> Basically, from Debian's point of view it's amd64 (lists, ports page,
> cvs, etc).
>
> Stephen
mrvn@dual:~/t/dpkg% dpkg --version
Debian GNU/Linux `dpkg' package management program version 1.10.22 (amd64).
(actually 1.10.22-0.0.0.1.pure64)
mrvn@dual:~/t/dpkg% dpkg --print-architecture
amd64
mrvn@dual:~/t/dpkg% dpkg --print-gnu-build-architecture
x86_64
mrvn@dual:~/t/dpkg% dpkg --print-installation-architecture
amd64
mrvn@dual:~/t/dpkg% dpkg-architecture
DEB_BUILD_ARCH=amd64
DEB_BUILD_GNU_CPU=x86_64
DEB_BUILD_GNU_SYSTEM=linux
DEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE=x86_64-linux
DEB_HOST_ARCH=amd64
DEB_HOST_GNU_CPU=x86_64
DEB_HOST_GNU_SYSTEM=linux
DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE=x86_64-linux
mrvn@dual:~/t/dpkg% gcc -dumpmachine
x86_64-linux
mrvn@dual:~/t/dpkg% uname -a
Linux dual 2.6.5-amd64 #2 Sun May 9 16:34:33 UTC 2004 x86_64 GNU/Linux
As far as I'm concerned this is as it should be.
MfG
Goswin
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diff -Nurd dpkg-1.10.22.deb/archtable dpkg-1.10.22/archtable
--- dpkg-1.10.22.deb/archtable 2004-06-01 21:18:15.000000000 +0000
+++ dpkg-1.10.22/archtable 2004-06-02 21:30:13.000000000 +0000
@@ -63,6 +63,6 @@
s390x-linux-gnu s390x s390x
s390x-ibm-linux-gnu s390x s390x
s390x-unknown-linux-gnu s390x s390x
-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu x86-64 x86_64
-x86_64-linux x86-64 x86_64
-x86_64-linux-gnu x86-64 x86_64
+x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu amd64 x86_64
+x86_64-linux amd64 x86_64
+x86_64-linux-gnu amd64 x86_64
diff -Nurd dpkg-1.10.22.deb/debian/changelog dpkg-1.10.22/debian/changelog
--- dpkg-1.10.22.deb/debian/changelog 2004-06-01 21:21:43.000000000 +0000
+++ dpkg-1.10.22/debian/changelog 2004-06-02 21:29:41.000000000 +0000
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+dpkg (1.10.22-0.0.0.1.pure64) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ The fix the DebConf4 breakage release.
+
+ * revert renaming amd64 to x86-64.
+
+ -- Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> Wed, 02 Jun 2004 23:29:05 +0200
+
dpkg (1.10.22) unstable; urgency=low
The DebConf4 Release.
diff -Nurd dpkg-1.10.22.deb/scripts/dpkg-architecture.pl dpkg-1.10.22/scripts/dpkg-architecture.pl
--- dpkg-1.10.22.deb/scripts/dpkg-architecture.pl 2004-06-01 21:18:16.000000000 +0000
+++ dpkg-1.10.22/scripts/dpkg-architecture.pl 2004-06-02 21:36:59.000000000 +0000
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@
's390', 's390-linux',
's390x', 's390x-linux',
'ia64', 'ia64-linux',
- 'x86-64', 'x86_64-linux',
+ 'amd64', 'x86_64-linux',
'openbsd-i386', 'i386-openbsd',
'freebsd-i386', 'i386-freebsd',
'kfreebsd-i386', 'i386-kfreebsd-gnu',
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