re: thoughts on architectures

2002-02-11 Thread matthew green
There's a field in the ELF header called OS/ABI. Readelf -h finds it, and it looks like this: Normal binaries: OS/ABI:UNIX - System V FreeBSD binaries: OS/ABI:UNIX - FreeBSD I need to look into it a

Re: thoughts on architectures

2002-02-11 Thread David Schmitt
On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 01:25:51AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 4. Drop keeping metadata in package filenames. Make them just a unique string, assigned when the package is installed into the archive. That gets rid of the need to add something to the filename to

Re: thoughts on architectures

2002-02-11 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 01:25:51AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think you could say that a binary's environment is made up these things: Whatever. The exact set of virtual package names that make up the architecture depends on your needs (I called this the universe). Of course you have to

Re: thoughts on architectures

2002-02-11 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 05:18:51PM +1300, Philip Charles wrote: Maybe there should be several layers of Packages files. I don't think the distributor should try to anticipate the needs of individual users of the distribution at this level. If you want to get rid of all emulated packages, just

Re: thoughts on architectures

2002-02-11 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 11:07:18AM +0100, David Schmitt wrote: Which would lead to the problem, that in the pool/ there would be stuff like: pool/main/p/package/: package_Version-1_abcde.deb package_Version-1_lsahd.deb [...] Essentially rendering manual download