On Fri 10 Apr 2009 at 10:30AM, Nicholas Solter wrote:
>
> set name=variant.arch value=sparc value=i386
> set name=variant.zone value=global value=nonglobal
>
> Although identical in format, they don't have the same semantics -- the
> first is instructions, the second data only. I don't think it was an
> unreasonable assumption that the second would actually be instructions
> as well...
They are treated uniformly. These represent a declaration of the known
variant values at the time of publication of this package.
It's saying: "When I was published, I knew about variant.zone, and I
knew that it could be global or nonglobal. When I was published, I
knew about variant.arch, and I knew that the possible values were
sparc and i386."
This allows the packaging system to cope with a universe where (say)
we add another architecture.
-dp
--
Daniel Price, Solaris Kernel Engineering http://blogs.sun.com/dp
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