Bug#637363: ***SPAM*** Re: Bug#637363: debootstrap 1.0.35 fails to accept --arch=amd64 on CentOS 5.6 system
Whit Blauvelt, le Wed 10 Aug 2011 15:09:15 -0400, a écrit :
> On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 08:34:12PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
>
> > --arch is the target architecture, not the current architecture. It
> > needs the latter to know how to deal with some details. debootstrap
> > should probably resort to uname in such case.
>
> Note in the default case (if I understand correctly now) debootstrap assumes
> that the current architecture shown by dpkg is also the target architecture.
> Why not also assume the reverse - that if the target architecture is
> specified through --arch and the current architecture is not discovered, the
> current architecture should be assumed the same as the target?
There's no reason why we shouldn't just trust uname.
> Also note "target" is an ambiguous term - the target in normal English is
> the existing object which receives the new thing
That is the meaning here: on which machine you will run the installed
debian system.
> (as when the target is a
> dartboard, and the new element introduced the dart), so the use of "target
> architecture" in the --help screen misleads a number of people besides me -
> as I see from Googling the error message.
It's probably simply that nobody up to now reported the issue to get it
actually fixed...
Samuel
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