Re: amd64 <-> x86_64

2004-07-24 Thread Stephen Frost
* Robert Millan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 08:58:48PM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > > DEB_HOST_ARCH=amd64 > > DEB_HOST_GNU_CPU=x86_64 > > > This are the correct values. > > How do you determine when a value is correct? All I have seen so far are > arbitrary marketing decis

Re: amd64 <-> x86_64

2004-07-24 Thread Stephen Frost
* Robert Millan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > So your point is that "dual namings are not that bad". Ok. Now, how is this > dual naming actualy _better_ than the former scheme: > > DEB_HOST_ARCH = "x86-64" > DEB_HOST_GNU_CPU = "x86_64" > > To my eyes, the former scheme was at least consistent. If

Re: amd64 <-> x86_64

2004-07-24 Thread Robert Millan
On Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 08:58:48PM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > > It returns: > > DEB_HOST_ARCH=amd64 > DEB_HOST_GNU_CPU=x86_64 > This are the correct values. How do you determine when a value is correct? All I have seen so far are arbitrary marketing decisions. > This is also what the official

Re: amd64 <-> x86_64

2004-07-24 Thread Robert Millan
On Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 02:54:19PM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote: > * Robert Millan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Now that the technical comitte has ruled in favour of 'amd64' for the debian > > archname (DEB_HOST_ARCH variable), I wonder what will happen with the other > > dpkg-architecture variable

Re: amd64 <-> x86_64

2004-07-23 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 08:48:12PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > > Hi! > > Now that the technical comitte has ruled in favour of 'amd64' for the debian > archname (DEB_HOST_ARCH variable), I wonder what will happen with the other > dpkg-architecture variables, which are actualy much more importan

Re: amd64 <-> x86_64

2004-07-23 Thread Stephen Frost
* Robert Millan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Now that the technical comitte has ruled in favour of 'amd64' for the debian > archname (DEB_HOST_ARCH variable), I wonder what will happen with the other > dpkg-architecture variables, which are actualy much more important than > the architecture name d

amd64 <-> x86_64

2004-07-23 Thread Robert Millan
Hi! Now that the technical comitte has ruled in favour of 'amd64' for the debian archname (DEB_HOST_ARCH variable), I wonder what will happen with the other dpkg-architecture variables, which are actualy much more important than the architecture name dpkg uses internaly to identify debian ports.