-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 11/17/11 10:00 PM, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote: > On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 02:16:47PM -0500, John Baldwin wrote: >> On Thursday, November 17, 2011 12:43:12 pm Ken Smith wrote: >>> If you're referring to the FTP directory tree layout we wind up >>> with: >>> >>> .../releases/amd64/9.0-RELEASE >>> .../releases/amd64/ISO-IMAGES/9.0 >>> >>> for an example of uname -m == uname -p. But for our two >>> powerpc related architectures we get: >>> >>> .../releases/powerpc/9.0-RELEASE >>> .../releases/powerpc/ISO-IMAGES/9.0 >>> .../releases/powerpc/powerpc64/9.0-RELEASE >>> .../releases/powerpc/powerpc64/ISO-IMAGES/9.0 >>> >>> I'm not sure I like the inconsistency. >> >> Given the available tradeoffs I prefer this to amd64/amd64. We >> could also define the rule another way, which is if a given >> TARGET only has a single TARGET_ARCH you just use TARGET, >> otherwise you use TARGET/TARGET_ARCH. > > If we seem to employ some naming transition rule based on > TARGET_ARCH and TARGET, why not simply check just for pc98 as I > suggested earlier, and return TARGET in this case, and TARGET_ARCH > otherwise? > > Generalizing, perhaps this rule can be extended to the list of > TARGET/TARGET_ARCH combos for which we return TARGET, and > TARGET_ARCH for the rest? > > (This is for ISO file names; for release directory structure > John's suggestion looks reasonable.) > > ./danfe >
Can you suggest a patch to src/usr.sbin/bsdinstall/scripts/mirrorselect that implements it then? I can picture a patch that just checks to see if uname -p == uname -m but I'm having trouble picturing a patch that implements anything more complicated than that in a way that's not a hack of checks for special cases. - -- Ken Smith - - From there to here, from here to | kensm...@buffalo.edu there, funny things are everywhere. | - Theodor Geisel | -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk7F2kgACgkQ/G14VSmup/YLVACgmB8gCrOjUREzjRJh+34UlU9i Q6wAoJGX0wsCjFpf/PYGGUvq04TYqBGL =s8IE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ svn-src-all@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-all-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"