[indiana-discuss] [pkg-discuss] OpenSolaris 2009.06 IPS Documentation posted for review

Shawn Walker swalker at opensolaris.org
Sun Apr 12 10:45:46 PDT 2009


Willi Burmeister wrote:
> Hi Jyothi,
> 
> on page 42 he ISA Tag is defined as
> 
>   ISA Distinguishes between different x86 platforms.
> 
> What does this mean? i386 and amd? And what about SPARC (sun4u,sun4us,sun4v)?
> 
> Greetings and thanks for the IPS documentation

Actually, I don't think this attribute has ever been used; I can't find 
any packages that use this.

I'm fairly certain variant.arch has superceded this.

Bart might know.

Cheers,
-- 
Shawn Walker



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