On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 8:14 PM, Michael Stone <[email protected]> wrote:
> ah, it's optionally built from the uname source. Too late for lenny. I > suggest using uname -m. As you wish, sir. I can't care less about there being /bin/arch or not. The point is that I ran into a script that uses "arch" instead of "uname -m" for I don't know what reason (I suspect there was a time when the output of "uname -m" and "arch" didn't match). And said script seems to run just fine on every other major Linux distribution out there but Debian. Looking at the changelog in the util-linux source package, Lamont seemed be very aware of /bin/arch going away, and looking at the comments in util-linux's source, it seems this was not a random whim but it was actually a thought out change. Since you don't seem to wish to upload this to lenny as a proposed-update and fixing it for squeeze doesn't seem to make much sense to me (I mean, in one year's time anything still depending on /bin/arch will certainly have some workaround in place), you can just close the bug if you wish. Thanks, Marcelo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
