Misleading directory names
Samuel J. Greear
sjg at evilcode.net
Tue Sep 28 02:33:31 PDT 2010
2010/9/28 PrzemysÅaw PaweÅczyk <pp_o2 at o2.pl>:
> Hi,
>
> Listing from http://avalon.dragonflybsd.org/packages/
>
> Name     Last modified    Size  Description
> Parent Directory          -
> README Â Â Â 18-May-2010 02:45 Â 1.3K
> amd64/ Â Â Â 24-Aug-2010 23:56 Â Â -
> i386/ Â Â Â Â 27-Sep-2010 20:59 Â Â -
> x86_64/ Â Â Â 24-Aug-2010 23:56 Â Â -
>
> Why there are two __identical__ directories under __two__ different
> names which stand for the same contents?
>
> Excerpt from README:
>
> What's here
> ------------
>
> The i386 directory contains packages built on 32-bit DragonFly
> systems. The amd64/x86_64 directores contains packages built on 64-bit
> DragonFly systems.
>
> (amd64 and x86_64 are the same thing here)
> Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> Why the mess?
>
> Regards
>
> --
> PrzemysÅaw PaweÅczyk (P2O2) [pron. Pshemislav Paveltchick]
> http://pp.blast.pl, pp_o2 at o2.pl
>
Our x86_64 branch used to be called amd64, it's just legacy.
Sam
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