Kurt Roeckx @ 2005-06-12 (Sunday), 23:05 (+0200) > You should be using something like dpkg --print-architecture or > dpkg-architecture instead.
Would this patch do the trick? -- /Martin
diff -ur checkinstall-1.5.3/checkinstall checkinstall-patched-1.5.3/checkinstall --- checkinstall-1.5.3/checkinstall 2005-11-06 14:03:59.302390154 +0100 +++ checkinstall-patched-1.5.3/checkinstall 2005-11-06 14:10:20.886160966 +0100 @@ -1146,8 +1146,8 @@ # Fix the PowerPC architecture description if we're on Debian - if [ "$CK_DEBIAN" = "1" ] && [ "$ARCHITECTURE" = "ppc" ]; then - ARCHITECTURE="powerpc" + if [ "$CK_DEBIAN" = "1" ] then + ARCHITECTURE=`dpkg-architecture -qDEB_HOST_ARCH` fi