x86_32 yum $basearch

Josh Boyer jwboyer at gmail.com
Fri Feb 20 15:57:48 UTC 2009


On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 10:37:13AM -0500, seth vidal wrote:
>On Fri, 2009-02-20 at 10:31 -0500, Josh Boyer wrote:
>
>> Or you could just have:
>> 
>> x86
>> x86_64
>> ppc
>> ppc64
>> sparc
>> sparc64
>> 
>> etc.
>> 
>> Naming repos after specific arches just seems like pain.  This is
>> one area where ppc does things right.  You don't see things like:
>
>I wasn't naming them after specific  arches. I was saying  we can use
>symlinks to solve the arch complexity  and the confusion with what
>$basearch should be vs what pkgs are in the repo.

Ugh.

>> I'll probably get the "tradition" and "you don't know what you're
>> talking about" arguments thrown at me.  My opinions won't change :).
>
>Interesting. I don't know what 'tradition' you're talking about. But
>knowing that your opinions won't change makes me less likely to continue
>discussing it w/you.

Actually, let's go with the "you don't know what you're talking about" thing.
For some reason I can't explain I thought we were discussing something else.

Consider this my 'jerkcity' email for the year.  Sorry.

josh




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