Re: question on hurd-i386 Debian architecture

[Pjotr Kourzanov <peter.kourzanov@xs4all.nl>]

Riku Voipio wrote:

> On Sun, Mar 12, 2006 at 03:49:01PM +0100, Peter Kourzanov wrote:
>  
>
> > Can anyone please explain why this architecture is named hurd-i386 
> > rather that i386-hurd?
> >    
>
> because dpkg-architecture has a line like this:
>
>  return "$os-$cpu";
>
> older dpkg (of sarge age) was more flexible, so likely the
> hurd naming decission was not done because of dpkg-architecture,
> but rather the other way around.
>  
That's weird, naming a architecure because of a seemingly random
choice made in a script. But OK, that's fair enough...

I am adding some additional archs to my local installation like i386-uclibc,
which makes hurd-i386 an exception to the rule of having the CPU arch first
and the OS name the next.