[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> What would be the benefit of doing this?  I'm assuming that you're
> trying to say:
> 
>       arch > 386

The example was meant to be illustrative only. I wanted to confirm
that the current restriction on filter values was a bug, and I was
curious what additional capabilities were under consideration for
filtering.

Joe


> 
> so that you get the 486 ISA.  The problem is that for Solaris, the ISAs
> look like:
> 
>       amd64 pentium_pro+mmx pentium_pro pentium+mmx pentium i486 i386 i86
> 
>       sparcv9+vis2 sparcv9+vis sparcv9 sparcv8plus+vis2 sparcv8plus+vis
>       sparcv8plus sparcv8 sparcv8-fsmuld sparcv7 sparc
> 
> It's also a little unclear, assuming that we let this be a number, how
> we would differentiate other platforms.  With the example above and a
> couple of successful ports of OpenSolaris, would this mean we can
> install packages for i486, mk68000, PowerPC 604, and IBM 390?  That
> would certainly be confusing.
> 
> If we can understand what you're trying to accomplish, it might be
> easier to conceive of a mechanism that would work.
> 
> -j
> 
> On Mon, Nov 19, 2007 at 11:43:13AM -0800, Joe Di Pol wrote:
>> Currently it looks like filter values are limited to identifier
>> syntax only. So
>>
>>   arch = i386
>>
>> is valid, but
>>
>>   arch = 386
>>
>> is not. Also the only comparison operator is "=".
>>
>> Are there any plans to enhance the capabilities of filters
>> in the future? Like supporting numeric values and ">", "<",
>> ">=", etc?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Joe
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