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Author Bug#268709: Architecture names should have a "${kernel}-" prefix
Goswin von Brederlow

2004-09-02, 6:55 pm

Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org> writes:

> Hi,
>
> On Sat, Aug 28, 2004 at 07:33:54PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote:
>
> The other big problem is how to tell that a package is kernel bound or
> cpu bound. I would like to have aliases for those in the form of:
>
> any-<cpu> (any-i386) for cpu bound and for any kernel
> <kernel>-any (linux-any) for kernel bound and for any cpu
>
> That could be integrated now in a way that the aliases are just expanded
> to the current real arches, so we preserve compatiblity.


Depends: not+gnu

Build-Depends: type-handling
Build-Conflicts: not+linux

....

apt-cache show type-handling

> Additionally we could start recognizing linux-<cpu> as an alias for
> <cpu> for now.
>
>
> Well in general there are too many assumptions that we are running
> under a Linux kernel, but that's due to Debian being "mainly" a
> GNU/Linux distro.
>
> regards,
> guillem


MfG
Goswin


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