RE: LSB and architecture names in Debian
>Hello,
>
>We are presently having a discussion on debian-amd64 about the name of
>Debian's amd64 port. The point came up that LSB mandates x86_64 for
>this port, and that it also mandates RPM. The point also
>arose that LSB
>mandates ppc, but we use powerpc.
>
>Therefore, we are curious about your (the LSB people) take on this. Is
>compliance with LSB in this regard simply a matter of making alien
>convert ppc to powerpc and x86_64 to amd64? Or is there something else
>involved? If so, what? How is this handled for powerpc?
Right now, LSB only calls out the architecture in the rpm package -
e.g. we don't care about the filename of the package. So an
alien conversion here is fine.
The lsb_release command, as of LSB 2.0, must now expose the
architecture name, and that one also needs to be the LSB-specified
name. The current sample implementation of lsb-release does
this by using the "arch" command, but the return value of arch
is not called out by LSB so this might be something to keep in mind.
Mats
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