Re: d-i - subarchitecture stuff

["Chris Tillman" <toff1@cox.net>]

On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 09:37:35AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 05:23:21PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 11:33:44AM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote:
> > > anna will use a new control field in the next version. it is called
> > > subarchitecture and will restrict the selection of this package only if
> > > it runs on this subarch.
> > 
> > the Subarchitecture field includes several whitespace seperated subarch
> > specification.
> > 
> > example:
> > Architecture: powerpc
> > Subarchitecture: powermac_newworld
> > 
> > currently specified are:
> > for powerpc:
> > - powermac_oldworld
> > - powermac_newworld
> 
> oldpmac and newpmac where traditionnally used. Or maybe simply pmac and
> oldpmac.

I'd definitely vote for the more explicit versions with the name in
hierarchical order, even as far as powerpc_powermac_oldworld. They've
changed often enough that there is no standard. Then you could follow
the pattern with powerpc_chrp_rs6k etc, and these would become machine
parseable.

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