On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 01:39:45PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 12:31:52PM +0100, Balint Reczey wrote: > > On 06/04/2014 03:41 AM, Guillem Jover wrote: > > > * Other programs could “easily” use dpkg-architecture to check for > > > identity or a match. (This poses problems for programs that do not > > > > I think making apt call dpkg-architecture for matching would be a good > > way of ensuring consistency with dpkg. Caching the results in a hash > > table would make matching even faster than it is currently. > > dpkg-architecture is in dpkg-dev, so not reliably usable at run-time. > dpkg doesn't currently provide a way to make this kind of query without > development tools installed. It's also probably not trivial to move it > because its current implementation relies on dpkg's Perl modules, which > also aren't part of the core dpkg binary package. > > I think this is somewhat unfortunate, but it is the reality right now. > Perhaps a good thing for somebody to work on would be reimplementing > dpkg-architecture in C so that it could be moved to the dpkg binary > package?
As I understand, dpkg-architecture query the C compiler which is not always avalaible. Cheers, -- Bill. <ballo...@debian.org> Imagine a large red swirl here.