Hi all Mentors, I'm trying to port to Debian the "command-not-found" package from Ubuntu, which suggests the installation of a package when the shell (bash or zsh) can't find an executable (i.e.: it avoid that "command not found" message). More info on [1].
What I've done is getting the list of all executables from all platforms Debian runs on (I've got the Contents-<arch>.gz files and scanned them with a Bash script). The Ubuntu package ships a "command-not-found-data" package, which contains _all_ the data from the four architectures Ubuntu supports (powerpc, i386, amd64 and sparc). I think it's a waste of space installing also binary databases for architectures different from the one cnf is being installed on. So I edited debian/control to have different command-not-found-<arch>, which Provides: command-not-found-data, while this one Depends: on command-not-found-<arch1> | command-not-found-<arch2> | ... The problem is, when I try to build the package, dpkg-gencontrol says: dpkg-gencontrol: error: current build architecture i386 does not appear in package's list (alpha) (obviously, it was reading the debian/control section about command-not-found-alpha) I can't actually think of any way to get this done. I'd like to avoid the all-in-one solution, because the data for each architecture is around 3,5-4Mb -- the data for _all_ archs is 47Mb. Any idea? Kind regards, David [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CommandNotFoundMagic -- . ''`. Debian maintainer | http://snipurl.com/gofoxygo/ : :' : Linuxer #334216 | http://www.hanskalabs.net/ `. `'` GPG: 1392B174 | http://www.debianizzati.org/ `- 2BAB C625 4E66 E7B8 450A C3E1 E6AA 9017 1392 B174 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
