Re: Misleading directory names

["Samuel J. Greear" <sjg@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

2010/9/28 Przemysław Pawełczyk <pp_o2@o2.pl>:
> Hi,
>
> Listing from http://avalon.dragonflybsd.org/packages/
>
> Name         Last modified      Size  Description
> Parent Directory                  -
> README       18-May-2010 02:45  1.3K
> amd64/       24-Aug-2010 23:56    -
> i386/        27-Sep-2010 20:59    -
> x86_64/      24-Aug-2010 23:56    -
>
> 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)
>                  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> Why the mess?
>
> Regards
>
> --
> Przemysław Pawełczyk (P2O2) [pron. Pshemislav Paveltchick]
> http://pp.blast.pl, pp_o2@o2.pl
>

Our x86_64 branch used to be called amd64, it's just legacy.

Sam