Excerpts from Raphael Hertzog's message of Tue Aug 02 20:43:21 +0200 2011: > reopen 636352 > severity 636352 wishlist > retitle 636352 dpkg: provide a way to query the multiarch path component > without dpkg-dev > thanks > > On Tue, 02 Aug 2011, Michal Suchanek wrote: > > Also you can have libraries for *both* subarchs and there is no way to > > tell on what arch you are actually running, /etc/ld.so.conf will surely > > include both. > > Sorry I have been a bit quick to close the report. But it's more a > wishlist request than a real bug. > > It's also unlikely to be quickly fixed at this point. It would basically > require to rewrite a large part of dpkg-architecture in C.
Why the need to rewrite it? > > Note that if your package is "arch: any", you can embed the multiarch > path in your package at build time. (This is currently not the case for > initramfs-tools) dpkg is arch:any so it can embed the multiarch architecture at build time just like any other package. Thanks Michal -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
