On Fri, 2009-02-20 at 18:06 +0200, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> 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
The whole reason I liked used $arch was that it meant when fedora
stopped producing a 586 compatible tree, we didn't stop any one else
from making a 586 compat tree and having it available like secondary
arches are.
Additionally, it would mean when we drop 586 in F12 that users on 586
machines wouldn't accidentally get updated to an F12 release in the i386
dir that they can't use.
-sv
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