From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JRtrm-0007ux-V3 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 20 Feb 2008 18:40:27 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2D280E01D4; Wed, 20 Feb 2008 18:40:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from amun.cheops.ods.org (amun.cheops.ods.org [82.95.138.191]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01567E01D4 for ; Wed, 20 Feb 2008 18:40:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from tefnut.cheops.ods.org ([2001:888:1022:0:211:24ff:fe37:e46e] helo=gentoo.org) by amun.cheops.ods.org with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1JRtrk-0002wf-Ex for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:40:24 +0100 Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:40:23 +0100 From: Fabian Groffen To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Keyword amd64 -> x86_64 Message-ID: <20080220184023.GA1254@gentoo.org> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org References: <1203530351.26229.17.camel@wlt.obsidian-studios.com> <20080220192326.1d332d92.genone@gentoo.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080220192326.1d332d92.genone@gentoo.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (Darwin 8.11.0, VIM - Vi IMproved 7.1) Organization: Gentoo Foundation, Inc. X-Archives-Salt: 92347916-375e-473b-9806-b80c64ae9f8f X-Archives-Hash: 4b1f373271c2c83178e24919594f9390 On 20-02-2008 19:23:26 +0100, Marius Mauch wrote: > On Wed, 20 Feb 2008 12:59:11 -0500 > "William L. Thomson Jr." wrote: > > > Please excuse my ignorance if this is a naive comment or has been > > brought up before. With all the non amd processors now with 64bit > > support. amd64 as a keyword seems a bit odd and off maybe. > > > > What's the possibility of switching amd64 to x86_64? > > > > Unless the work to do that is greater than the value of the change. > > As the benefit is close to nothing IMO the required work is definitely > greater by several orders of magnitude. Well, that depends a bit. We basically introduced x64 a shorthand, and changed some keywords in prefix, of which I just finished the transition. It's basically just setting the new keyword in the profiles, and then gradually changing the keywords, e.g. on a repoman commit. That's sort of how I did it. You don't need any Portage support, IMHO. But I think for the current amd64 keyword, it's not worth the hassle to change it. Though, if for instance amd64-fbsd would be introduced, I think this keyword should have something more generic arch instead, like the x64 we use in prefix now. -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list