Re: Getting DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH from maintscripts

["Mathieu Parent (Debian)" <sathieu@debian.org>]

2016-12-16 1:24 GMT+01:00 Christian Seiler <christian@iwakd.de>:
> On 12/15/2016 10:50 PM, Mathieu Parent (Debian) wrote:
>> I need to have access to $DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH in prerm and postinst to
>> create the appropriate symlink with update-alternatives.
>>
>> What is the best way to do this?
>
> Generate them from .in files at the appropriate time, resolving
> the variable manually. See for example:
>
> https://sources.debian.net/src/dietlibc/0.34~cvs20160606-3/debian/rules/#L107-L110
> https://sources.debian.net/src/dietlibc/0.34%7Ecvs20160606-3/debian/dietlibc-dev.postinst.in/

Thanks.

This is what I've done:

https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-samba/cifs-utils.git/commit/?id=b0fa211e28982d471a988a7f91df32934da64f98

NB: I was a bit confused that dh-exec was not called for maintscript.

Regards
-- 
Mathieu Parent