On Sat, 2008-12-27 at 17:55:36 +0100, Robert Millan wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 05:29:16PM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote:
> > Has the GNU triplet been accepted upstream?
> 
> No, and won't be for some time.  Their current policy is to require that a
> fully functional system is available first.

Ah, right, I remember now.

> In the unlikely situation that the GNU triplet had to be changed out of a
> requirement from upstream, I think this shouldn't affect the dpkg triplet,
> so it would be safe to start using it, even if this means GNU triplet and
> dpkg triplet will end up being different.
> 
> After all, this happened for "x86_64" vs "amd64" too.

Yes I don't think that'd be a problem.

One last question and then I think I'll be satisfied. Is the opensolaris
project a complete fork from solaris? Just to make sure it makes sense
to use kopensolaris instead of ksolaris, but I guess the kernel's uname
output might be the definitive answer to that.

thanks,
guillem



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