Previously jcn@wi.leidenuniv.nl wrote: > Ah, good. When, by what? Two new HP servers (1 for students and 1 for staff). It should have happened a year ago or so, you could ask Vian Govers about the current time schedule. > Ok, but it remains a problem for installations in other places than /, > eg, $HOME. Which is typically something you'd do if you're not a > superuser? Indeed. You should try porting fakeroot to HP-UX if you really want to be able to build packages without being root. > What about: > dpkg --print-architecture || gcc -dumpmachine | sed 's/i[3-9]86.*/i386/' > Alternatively, we'd need a dummy dpkg script for bootstrapping. Try looking at the code in config.sub, I think that is almost what you are looking for. > Sorry. I didn't see any reference to those archives. Debian-dpkg is > a mailing list somewhere? Indeed, look at the debian website for the archive. > I don't know, I didn't really look into this (I've got other things to > do than port dpkg :-), but I encountered missing references to getopt_long. > If dpkg is supposed to do option parsing itself, maybe somebody should > fix that. No harm to include getopt 'till then? Weird. What program uses them? > > > Anyway I think you need to try this patch on all other architectures > > Sorry, but I wouldn't know how to do this. I'll try it at home on my > linux-ppc box, but that's all the architectures I have to offer (apart > from HP-UX :-). Just ask if you can get access to krypton (Debian 2.1 system), that is an i386 system. Wichert. -- ============================================================================== This combination of bytes forms a message written to you by Wichert Akkerman. E-Mail: wichert@cs.leidenuniv.nl WWW: http://www.wi.leidenuniv.nl/~wichert/
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