tag 556637 - patch thanks On Tue, 17 Nov 2009, Jussi Hakala wrote: > The dpkg determines the architecture in which it's in from a build > time constant. This makes things difficult if we use host's dpkg to > operate on packages non-native to host, for example, with > scratchbox2. > > It would be nice if dpkg would read DEB_HOST_ARCH for example to > user a chance to override this if needed.
I would rather not let the user mess up with the architecture... With multi-arch dpkg can accept non-native architectures with a new option (--foreign-architecture=foo). It seems to me that it should solve this problem. Can you verify it? You can find a multi-archified dpkg here: git clone git://git.debian.org/~hertzog/dpkg.git -b pu/multiarch/full Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer Follow my Debian News ▶ http://RaphaelHertzog.com (English) ▶ http://RaphaelHertzog.fr (Français) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
