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Re: Port Name: A Vote



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

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