Re: Architecture Field
Jonathan Yu <jonathan.i.yu@gmail.com> writes:
> For the purposes of Debian Control Files, I took that to mean:
> dpkg-architecture -L results that have no 'os' prefix should be
> considered 'linux'
Correct.
> Is it safe to assume s390 == linux-s390, in all cases?
Yes.
> I ask because the terminology sounds ambiguous -- the OS part is
> "sometimes" elided, as when the OS is Linux. But that doesn't
> necessarily mean that a missing OS part means the OS is assumed to be
> Linux.
I think what the wording is driving at is that the OS part doesn't have
to be elided; in other words, you can use linux-s390 and it means the
same thing as s390. But if there's no OS part, it's always Linux.
The most common case that you'll see that isn't Linux are the kfreebsd-*
ports.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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