There are very important technical reasons for these decisions, not only "nomenclature correctness" stuff. Let me explain.
On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 11:33:22AM -0700, Joel Baker wrote: > > uname -s: GNU/KFreeBSD > Uhm. I'd have to turn on my box to check > this. I think I may have left uname -s > alone, but changed uname -v to something > like Debian/NetBSD. A lot of programs tend to use uname for system identification. When they do that, they're primarily checking for libc features. - If uname -s prints "NetBSD", programs will assume NetBSD libc and you'll have the most chances to compile your program on NetBSD libc. - If uname -s prints "GNU" or "GNU/*", programs will assume GNU libc. GNU is aka GNU/Hurd, and is already stablished. GNU/* is what we've been using so far for our Glibc-based ports. So you should really use "NetBSD" for uname -s. > > config.guess triplet: <arch>-(pc|unknown)-kfreebsd<version>-gnu > <arch>-(pc|unknown)-netbsd-gnu And: <arch>-(pc|unknown)-knetbsd<version>-gnu Similarly to the above, you most likely want to match netbsd* checks, while we want to avoid them because of not having NetBSD libc. Anyway, changing the triplets at this stage is out of question for many reasons. > > Debian port name: Debian GNU/KFreeBSD > Debian GNU/NetBSD As said before, my suggestion is Debian GNU/KLNetBSD here. > Debian GNU NetBSD/i386 Uhm.. that (without the slash) would mean NetBSD is a GNU project. > > Debian arch name: freebsd-<arch> > netbsd-<arch> (specfically, -i386) I've been using netbsd-<arch> too, for the reasons Guillem explained. Sorting this out will require long and painful discussion with the dpkg maintainers, but see below.. > > The Debian arch name is not consistent, because the dpkg maintainers > > disagreed with the name change, and we didn't want to discuss it > > endlessly, we wanted the patches integrated to have a functional system. > > Frankly, they're probably waiting to see who emerges from the smoke and > rubble as actually capable of being used as a working port... .. untill someone "emerges from the smoke", I don't find it viable to annoy the dpkg maintainers with that. Since the DEB_HOST_ARCH is not that important, I think we can postpone this for now. -- Robert Millan "[..] but the delight and pride of Aule is in the deed of making, and in the thing made, and neither in possession nor in his own mastery; wherefore he gives and hoards not, and is free from care, passing ever on to some new work." -- J.R.R.T, Ainulindale (Silmarillion)
