On Fri, 20 Feb 2009, Josh Boyer wrote:
On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 09:20:26AM -0500, seth vidal wrote:
On Fri, 2009-02-20 at 14:12 +0000, Paul Howarth wrote:
seth vidal wrote:
On Fri, 2009-02-20 at 09:42 +0000, Paul Howarth wrote:
Now that Fedora 11 x86_32 is going to be based on i586 packages rather
than i386 packages, does it follow that yum's $basearch will change from
i386 to i586 and hence repository directory layouts changing too, or
will it stay at i386?
I don't think it will change. For a few reasons:
1. non-fedora repos
2. non-fedora distros
3. this is why we also have $arch in addition to $basearch
make sense?
Certainly from the point of view of being the least disruptive option;
it'll just look a bit strange having i386 "Everything" repos with no
i386 packages in them...
Which is why we shouldn't have i386 repos. We should switch
fedora-release to using $arch and an i586 repo which is a symlink to the
i686 repo. Then when we phase out i586 in F12, we just remove the i586
symlink. That way, if anyone wants to maintain a build of fedora for
i586 or lesser machines then they can do so in the i586 path using
$arch.
Or you could just have:
x86
x86_64
ppc
ppc64
sparc
sparc64
...or you could use rpm's idea of ISA to avoid yet another set of
different names :)
Available to python with rpm.expandMacro("%{__isa}"), expands to things
like:
x86-64
x86-32
ppc-32
ppc-64
..etc
- Panu -
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