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/svn/athena r25380 - trunk/athena/bin/machtype/debian

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Geoffrey Thomas)
Mon Aug 15 22:03:25 2011

Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2011 22:03:19 -0400
From: Geoffrey Thomas <geofft@MIT.EDU>
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Author: geofft
Date: 2011-08-15 22:03:19 -0400 (Mon, 15 Aug 2011)
New Revision: 25380

Modified:
   trunk/athena/bin/machtype/debian/rules
Log:
machtype: Add comment to debian/rules about sysname order

Modified: trunk/athena/bin/machtype/debian/rules
===================================================================
--- trunk/athena/bin/machtype/debian/rules	2011-08-11 22:09:23 UTC (rev 25379)
+++ trunk/athena/bin/machtype/debian/rules	2011-08-16 02:03:19 UTC (rev 25380)
@@ -23,6 +23,11 @@
     $(error Debian version $(DEBIAN_VERSION) is too old)
 endif
 
+# The order of the following code is important, and ensures the correct
+# relative order of Debian and Ubuntu releases. (Note this is not quite
+# chronological order, e.g., Debian 6.0 released before Ubuntu 11.04,
+# but after its DebianImportFreeze.)
+
 ifeq ($(DISTRO),Ubuntu)
     ifeq ($(call compare_ubuntu_version,11.10),y)
         SYS_COMPAT += $(call arch_sysnames,amd64_ubuntu1110,i386_ubuntu1110)


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