Re: [Linuxcoe-devel] DiStRo nAmInG and code reliance

[Bruno C. <Bru...@hp...>]

Bryan Gartner said on Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 04:48:55PM -0700:

> My proposed naming guideline will be:
> 
> 	<lsb_release -s -i>-<lsb_release -s -r>-<uname -m>
>          Distributor ID    - Release           - machine hardware name

My only warning here is that there may be (not completely sure)
differences between what gives lsb_release -s -i and lsb_release -s -r
and what is contained in the /etc/distro-release file.

I have not checked it.

> > $ pbdistrocheck
> > distro tuple: mandriva,2009.0,md,rpm,.mdv2009.0,sudo urpmi.update -a ; sudo urpmi --auto
> 
> Good that you ended up in a similar state.  But at this point I have no
> need to distribute *any* tool to calculate this, 

Well you need the lsb package installed. Which is not by default on most
distro. But agreed with you. What I was proposing is that you could call
also the perl module ProjectBuilder::Distribution and integrate it in
your delivery directly. That way you're autonomous.

> but only to run it once
> on a given "tuple" to generate what should be used.  If we do later
> get to this point, perhaps when we migrate to using something like
> Config::Model, it would be important to calculate a value (perhaps
> via the pbdistrocheck) and generate all the config files automatically.

True.

> You know I will.  I am still having some fundamental startup questions,
> adjusting .pbrc values to the appropriate settings, and also doing first
> run kinds of cms2build operations (from scratch).  I'll contact you
> directly with these questions,

Thanks for your patience on this. My ability to document is worse that
mine to code ;-) But I'll try to improve the wiki soon with examples
made from scratch so that people could at least follow those
instructions to setup an environement.

Bruno.
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