On Sun, Sep 11, 2005 at 03:04:06AM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > On Sat, Sep 10, 2005 at 09:42:17PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 10, 2005 at 08:02:38PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > > On Sat, Sep 10, 2005 at 05:57:12PM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > > > > On Sat, Sep 10, 2005 at 05:33:29PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > > > > Sure, i am not stupid, i perfectly noticed that, now my question is > > > > > why do you > > > > > want to know that ? > > > > > > > > That's for the klive project, I added two links in the first email just > > > > check it again. > > > > > > Also, your list is bogus, debian supports actually 12 architectures, and > > > you > > > only list x86 flavours. > > > > Mmm, rereading me this sounds a bit too aggresive, which was not my > > intention, > > The reason klive don't list all 12 archs is primarly because there are > no klive users coming from all those 12 archs. See the unknown list.
How does klive work anyway ? Do you use it by having people have it installed and report data ? If so, you may look into the popularity context package ? > If you can improve this regexp (which seems the way to go for now) > you're very welcome: > > 'Debian' : > re.compile(r'^(\d+)\.(\d+)\.(\d+)(?:-git(\d+)|\.(\d+)|-rc(\d+))?-(\d+)-(?:[3456]86|k7|generic|amd64-k8)') > > Right now I only added the basics to catch the most frequent archs in > klive unknown listing, it's true I can't catch all 12 archs if somebody > would be running klive on top of them. Well, i guess i would not do it like you do ? Why have only a single regext, instead of a case switch for example, or better yet two case switches, one matching uname -m, and then going for uname -r. I still think you are taking the wrong approach here, maybe you shouild propose a speacial patch, which each distribution could apply and fill a data with distribution info, and which would then appear in /proc/version, and not try to get distributions to polute the version namespace. Notice also, that on a debian system, you may find the exact sert of patches applied in : /usr/src/patches :) > Since the ubuntu kernel seems to be very different from debian kernel, I > wonder how I can detect it with uname -r, I guess I can't right now. Like said, wrong approach. > Anyway klive was made primarly for mainline, so I don't care that much > if I can't differentiate between debian and ubuntu. Well, i even doubt it will work well for mainline, since people can and will modify the version to suite them best, or apply a random set of patches. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
