retitle 263743 dpkg: Please support the ppc64 architecture
thanks
The LSB 2.0 uses 'ppc64' as the name of the architecture. The LSB 2.0 says:
"Package Architecture Considerations
All packages must specify an architecture of ppc64. [...]"
Of course Debian could choose a different name and provide a LSB
compatibility layer which handles the name conversion. However,
I do not see any reason why we should deviate from the name which
the LSB chooses for the package architecture in this case. This is
in contrast to the amd64 case, where we unfortunately had problems with
the special character '_' in the LSB package architecture name x86_64.
Regards
Andreas Jochens
diff -urN ../tmp-orig/dpkg-1.10.25/archtable ./archtable
--- ../tmp-orig/dpkg-1.10.25/archtable 2004-11-11 20:10:03.000000000 +0000
+++ ./archtable 2004-11-23 17:44:56.885722904 +0000
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@
ppc-linux-gnu powerpc powerpc
powerpc-linux-gnu powerpc powerpc
powerpc powerpc powerpc
+powerpc64-linux-gnu ppc64 ppc64
mips-linux-gnu mips mips
mipsel-linux-gnu mipsel mipsel
mipseb-linux-gnu mips mips
diff -urN ../tmp-orig/dpkg-1.10.25/scripts/dpkg-architecture.pl
./scripts/dpkg-architecture.pl
--- ../tmp-orig/dpkg-1.10.25/scripts/dpkg-architecture.pl 2004-11-11
20:10:04.000000000 +0000
+++ ./scripts/dpkg-architecture.pl 2004-11-23 17:45:27.749030968 +0000
@@ -54,6 +54,7 @@
'm68k', 'm68k-linux',
'arm', 'arm-linux',
'powerpc', 'powerpc-linux',
+ 'ppc64', 'powerpc64-linux',
'mips', 'mips-linux',
'mipsel', 'mipsel-linux',
'sh3', 'sh3-linux',
