On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 09:41:00AM +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: > Hi Joel, > > On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 01:50:16PM -0700, Joel Baker wrote: > > I've been contacted by a member of the NetBSD team, who expressed that the > > general opinion seems to be that "Debian GNU/KNetBSD" is a better name for > > the port than "Debian GNU/NetBSD", both because it is more specific about > > what's going on, and because it doesn't dilute the NetBSD trademark. While > > the former is less true of, say, my work, the latter is certainly a valid > > concern. > > This summer Robert and I were discussing on the naming convention and > concluded that we would like to use KFreeBSD wherever possible, for > consistrency and to not confuse users or developers, etc. So now we have: > > uname -s: GNU/KFreeBSD Uhm. I'd have to turn on my box to check this. I think I may have left uname -s alone, but changed uname -v to something like Debian/NetBSD. > config.guess triplet: <arch>-(pc|unknown)-kfreebsd<version>-gnu <arch>-(pc|unknown)-netbsd-gnu > Debian port name: Debian GNU/KFreeBSD Debian GNU/NetBSD Debian GNU NetBSD/i386 (yes, it's inconsistant; should perhaps be Debian GNU/NetBSD(i386), or whatever variant on that we end up with) > Debian arch name: freebsd-<arch> netbsd-<arch> (specfically, -i386) > > The Debian arch name is not consistent, because the dpkg maintainers > disagreed with the name change, and we didn't want to discuss it > endlessly, we wanted the patches integrated to have a functional system. Frankly, they're probably waiting to see who emerges from the smoke and rubble as actually capable of being used as a working port... > My question is, what names were you thinking on changing (if that change > is considered) ? The config.guess triple is going to be exceptionalyl difficult to change at this point, for very little return (and the -gnu suffix is already sufficient to indicate exactly what's going on, in the exact sense that config.guess uses those fields; a NetBSD core, with gnu userland). The port name is trivial to change; I think the only places it shows up regularly are the web pages (which DDs can get access to fix, including myself), and my .signature. :) The arch name isn't going to change, for obvious reasons, I think. I've waffled extensively over what various parts of uname should say, though I'd like to have some rational, useful way of deciding that. -- Joel Baker <fenton@debian.org> ,''`. Debian GNU NetBSD/i386 porter : :' : `. `' `-
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