ABI/architecture identification for packages
Baptiste Daroussin
bapt at FreeBSD.org
Tue Mar 20 07:48:42 UTC 2012
On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 06:24:37AM +0000, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> In message <20120319215802.GC1692 at azathoth.lan>, Baptiste Daroussin writes:
>
> >On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 10:35:08PM +0100, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> In order to identify architectures I need to find a uniq id for every
> >> possibilities (for pkgng)
> >>
> >> here is the identification I propose:
> >>
> >> arch-class-os-majorversion(-archi_specific_extension)
>
> Given how sparse this name-space is, you'll have less than 50
> different values, you might want to consider something more compact,
> such as a single letter for all components, and the version number last:
>
> X2F9 = x64-32-freebsd-9
> X4F10 = x64-64-freebsd-10
> A2FB9 = arm-32-freebsd-eb_oabi-9
>
> By the time we run out of ASCII or even Unicode characters, we have
> other problems.
>
While I tend to agree to compact/short identifier on the principle, I don't
really like the obfuscation it brings, I prefer this to remain humain readable,
at a point or another it could be shown to users (you are trying to install an
x86-64-freebsd-10 package on a x86-32-freebsd-9 system if more understandable
than "you are trying to install a X4F10 package on a X2F9 system.)
regards,
Bapt
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