Hi! On Sat, 2009-08-15 at 19:36:07 +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > On Tue, 2009-07-28 at 19:06:55 +0200, Simon Richter wrote: > > Package: dpkg > > Version: 1.14.25 > > Severity: wishlist > > Tags: patch > > > this patch adds an exception to dpkg-architecture that allows architecture > > names that start with "x-" as long as a GNU architecture name is also > > specified. > > > > This is incredibly useful if one wants to define local architectures for > > cross-compiling (using both -a and -t to dpkg-buildpackage works). > > > > The downside is that DEB_HOST_ARCH_OS and DEB_HOST_ARCH_CPU cannot be > > automatically set to sane values, which I think is a limitation one can > > live with. > > As discussed during DebConf, I agree with the goal but I'm not entirely > happy with the proposed use of “x-”, as the dash breaks current > assumptions of what's what depending on the position relative to it.
What I've been thinking about is to use a different character, for example ~, so we'd have “~arch” denoting an unofficial architecture, or “~foo-bar” which would not break the - notation. The problem is that I'm not sure if any of the several programs processing package binaries and distribution data would break with such architecture name. thanks, guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
