[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 >> _______________________________________________ >> pkg-discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss > _______________________________________________ > pkg-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
