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Date:      Thu, 17 Nov 2011 19:01:18 +0100
From:      Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Ken Smith <kensmith@buffalo.edu>
Cc:        Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org>, src-committers@freebsd.org, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, David Chisnall <theraven@freebsd.org>, TAKAHASHI Yoshihiro <nyan@freebsd.org>, Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org>, svn-src-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r227536 - in head: release share/man/man7
Message-ID:  <20111117180117.GB1683@garage.freebsd.pl>
In-Reply-To: <1321551793.82271.55.camel@bauer.cse.buffalo.edu>
References:  <201111151849.pAFInR3K012609@svn.freebsd.org> <20111117145723.GB96475@FreeBSD.org> <1321542696.82271.31.camel@bauer.cse.buffalo.edu> <201111171141.22648.jhb@freebsd.org> <1321551793.82271.55.camel@bauer.cse.buffalo.edu>

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On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 12:43:12PM -0500, Ken Smith wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-11-17 at 11:41 -0500, John Baldwin wrote:
> > On Thursday, November 17, 2011 10:11:36 am Ken Smith wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2011-11-17 at 14:57 +0000, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> > > > On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 09:44:52AM -0500, Ken Smith wrote:
> > > > > This is the problem we are trying to "solve":
> > > > >=20
> > > > > Supported TARGET/TARGET_ARCH pairs for world and kernel targets
> > > > >     amd64/amd64
> > > > >     arm/arm
> > > > >     arm/armeb
> > > > >     i386/i386
> > > > >     ia64/ia64
> > > > >     mips/mipsel
> > > > >     mips/mipseb
> > > > >     mips/mips64el
> > > > >     mips/mips64eb
> > > > >     mips/mipsn32eb
> > > > >     pc98/i386
> > > > >     powerpc/powerpc
> > > > >     powerpc/powerpc64
> > > > >     sparc64/sparc64
> > > >=20
> > > > As I see it, for every pair except pc98/i386, second part should be=
 used.
> > > > For pc98/i386, first (pc98).  Problem solved.  ;-)
> > > >=20
> > > > ./danfe
> > > >=20
> > >=20
> > > I'd still sort of prefer no special cases.  However ...
> > >=20
> > > For the ISO / memstick filenames we could just program in `uname -p`
> > > and ask the pc98 builder to modify the filenames post-build.  But
> > > we still have the dual names needed for the FTP site layout.  There
> > > it needs to be fully automated in the installer.
> > >=20
> > > So, given it seemed like we're sort of stuck with having the dual
> > > names appearing in other places combined with it never causing us
> > > to have special cases and/or conflicts it seemed like just biting
> > > the bullet and having them in the ISO / memstick filenames too ...
> > >=20
> > > Have I mentioned I don't like any of the options?  :-/
> >=20
> > I think collapsing down to one name if uname -m =3D=3D uname -p is not =
that=20
> > terrible and would preserve the existing layout for most of the current
> > cases (only pc98 would change, yes)?
> >=20
>=20
> If you're referring to the FTP directory tree layout we wind up with:
>=20
> 	.../releases/amd64/9.0-RELEASE
> 	.../releases/amd64/ISO-IMAGES/9.0
>=20
> for an example of uname -m =3D=3D uname -p.  But for our two powerpc rela=
ted
> architectures we get:
>=20
> 	.../releases/powerpc/9.0-RELEASE
> 	.../releases/powerpc/ISO-IMAGES/9.0
> 	.../releases/powerpc/powerpc64/9.0-RELEASE
> 	.../releases/powerpc/powerpc64/ISO-IMAGES/9.0

Or:

 	.../releases/powerpc/9.0-RELEASE
 	.../releases/powerpc/ISO-IMAGES/9.0
 	.../releases/powerpc-powerpc64/9.0-RELEASE
 	.../releases/powerpc-powerpc64/ISO-IMAGES/9.0

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