ABI confusion: freebsd:12:x86:64 or ABI: freebsd:12:amd64?

[Jeffrey Bouquet]

On Tue, 3 Oct 2017 10:51:24 +0200, "O. Hartmann" <ohartmann at walstatt.org> wrote:

> When using "poudriere", it seems ABI is freebsd:12:x86:64. When using FreeBSD base, it
> seems always to be referred to FreeBSD:12:amd64. What now? All non-BSD world uses x86:64,
> FreeBSD is using amd64, but why is this used inconsistently all over the places?
> 
> I run into trouble setting up some package- and base-servers and ran into the problem
> when deleting - not thinking of this discovered inconsistency - some links on the servers
> regarding FreeBSD:12:x86:64 (the same is for 11-STABLE).
> 
> Can someone shed some light onto this? 
> 
> What am I supposed to use now? The handbook referes to amd64, so I thought poudriere
> would, too. 
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> oh
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> O. Hartmann
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[ not using poudriere yet ]
/me too
I think three places [ etc/pkg, /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos, 2nd place in base, ]
  fourth:  hard coded DESPITE the above in the current DB in var/db/pkg?
  fifth: derived somehow from uname -a?

here: freebsd:12:x86:32
... when this issue resolved, could it please be added to 'man pkg|poudriere|syntch|portmaster?|portupgrade?  [ the latter two when developed further ]'