svn commit: r266553 - head/release/scripts

Warner Losh imp at bsdimp.com
Fri May 23 23:32:49 UTC 2014


On May 23, 2014, at 9:52 AM, Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn at freebsd.org> wrote:

> On 05/23/14 08:36, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
>> On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 08:19:34AM -0700, Nathan Whitehorn wrote:
>>> Is there any chance of finally switching the pkg abi identifiers to just
>>> be uname -p?
>>> -Nathan
>> Keeping asking won't make it happen, I have explained a large number of time why it
>> happened, why it is not easy for compatibility and why uname -p is still not
>> representing the ABI we do support, and what flexibility we need that the
>> current string offers to us.

What is not present? I’ve explained this many times. All examples that I’ve seen offered are the result of bugs, or are for unsupported configurations.

>> if one is willing to do the work, please be my guess, just dig into the archives
>> and join the pkg development otherwise: no it won't happen before a while
>> because we have way too much work on the todo and this item is stored at the
>> very end of this todo.

I’m putting my hand up.

Warner



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