Bug#290329: uname -m not dpkg-architecture

[<allomber@math.u-bordeaux.fr>]

On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 01:58:38PM +0100, Alex Owen wrote:
> 
> Just thinking some more about my proposed fix... using
> dpkg-architecture would mean "Require: dpkg-dev" but the idea could
> perhaps be reworked to use "uname -m" which is in coreutils which is:
> 
> $ apt-cache show coreutils
> Package: coreutils
> Essential: yes
> Priority: required
> Section: base
> .....
> 
> Not sure what a powerpc machine outputs for "uname -m" though...

You can use
dpkg --print-installation-architecture
which _does not_ require dpkg-dev.

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>

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