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

[Bryan G. <bry...@hp...>]

FYI,

I'm going to go ahead and get ready to snapshot our current bits
as a 4.2 release here shortly, complete with packages, etc.

But as a follow-on to this to thread (and for our 4.3 development),
I have taken an RFC-ish stab (albeit certainly not completely thought
through nor implemented) at a new format for our distmap file to
accomplish this.  At a minimum, we'd need some perl code/library
to parse (and maybe even create entries), which we could hopefully
re-use for some other related projects.

Nothing is sacred in this proposal, and modifications to make the
coding/API/access easier is all fair game.

OSVendKeyword Tag = {EquivalentList(AlsoKnownAsList)}
^             ^      ^
 distro       |      list of lists
  version     |        
   arch       |
              value
                (assumedly, we'd do lower case shift for all internal
                code comparisons)
                and can reference next higher level of hierarchy
                  distro = distroA
                   version distroA = ver1
                    arch ver1 =

An ability to wildcard or * case would also be nice (like for
aliasing amd64 <-> x86_64).

Hear are some example entries:

----------------------------------- cut here -----------------------------------

distro Debian = debian
version Debian = sid(unstable),woody(3.0),sarge(3.1),etch(4.0),lenny(stable,5.0),squeeze(testing,6.0), ...
arch Debian = amd64(x86_64),hppa(parisc),i386(i486,i586,i686)

----------------------------------- cut here -----------------------------------

distro RedHat = redhat,RedHatEnterpriseServer,RedHatEnterpriseClient,RedHatEnter
priseWS, ...

version RedHat = 2.1AS,2.1ES,2.1WS,3.0AS,3.0AS-U1, ..., 4AS,4AS-U1, ..., 5Server,5.1
Server, ..
version RedHatEnterpriseWS = 4
version RedHatEnterpriseServer = 5,5.1,5.2,5.3(Tikanga) ...
version RedHatEnterpriseClient = 5,5.1,5.2, ...

arch RedHat = i386, x86_64, ia64