On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 5:41 PM, Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn_at_freebsd.org> wrote: > On 03/19/12 14:35, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> In order to identify architectures I need to find a uniq id for every >> possibilities (for pkgng) >> >> here is the identification I propose: >> >> arch-class-os-majorversion(-archi_specific_extension) >> >> arch can be one of the following: >> >> - x86 for i386 and amd64 (discussed with kib) >> - powerpc for powerpc and powerpc64 >> - arm >> - mips >> - sparc >> >> class may be: >> - 32 bits >> - 64 bits >> >> os will always be freebsd :) (lower case) >> >> majorversion the freebsd major version (10 9 8) >> >> achi_specific_extension currently only mips and arm are concerned, >> for arm could be: >> el_oabi >> eb_oabi >> el_eabi >> eb_eabi >> > > One brief comment here: the output of uname -p (arm, armeb, etc.) is meant > to encode the ABI completely. All platforms with the same uname -p should be > able to execute each other's binaries. Why not just a sequence of `uname > -p`-`uname -s`-`uname -r` (or some subset of uname -r)? That should be > enough to completely encode compatibility information on almost any > operating system. The only tricky thing is that many OSes don't agree on branding. I don't know how far bapt and crew are willing to go to make pkgng OS agnostic. Thanks, -GarrettReceived on Mon Mar 19 2012 - 23:50:21 UTC
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