On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 08:34:12PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > --arch is the target architecture, not the current architecture. It > needs the latter to know how to deal with some details. debootstrap > should probably resort to uname in such case.
Note in the default case (if I understand correctly now) debootstrap assumes that the current architecture shown by dpkg is also the target architecture. Why not also assume the reverse - that if the target architecture is specified through --arch and the current architecture is not discovered, the current architecture should be assumed the same as the target? Also note "target" is an ambiguous term - the target in normal English is the existing object which receives the new thing (as when the target is a dartboard, and the new element introduced the dart), so the use of "target architecture" in the --help screen misleads a number of people besides me - as I see from Googling the error message. Thanks, Whit -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110810190915.ga...@black.transpect.com