Re: Bug#40356: dpkg: prints architecture "alphapca56" on "alpha"
On 29 Jun 1999, Falk Hueffner wrote:
> The problem IS in dpkg. I know many configure scripts recognize alpha
> as alphaevsomething, but that's another thing. But in my case, dpkg
> itself prints alphapca56. And there is no alphapca56 in the set of
> architectures for debian. If I tried to upload a package, it would be
> rejected. And I would *really* like to upload it.
Try rebuilding dpkg with the following patch added and see if it yields
consistent results of "alpha" when run. Get back to me on this and I'll
cross-post it to debian-dpkg.
diff -ruN dpkg-1.4.1.3/archtable dpkg-patched/archtable
--- dpkg-1.4.1.3/archtable Sun Nov 1 11:01:27 1998
+++ dpkg-patched/archtable Tue Jun 29 08:10:23 1999
@@ -20,6 +20,13 @@
pentium i386 i486
sparc sparc sparc
alpha alpha alpha
+alphaev4 alpha alpha
+alphaev5 alpha alpha
+alphaev56 alpha alpha
+alphaev6 alpha alpha
+alphaev7 alpha alpha
+alphapca56 alpha alpha
+alphapca57 alpha alpha
m68k m68k m68k
arm arm arm
ppc powerpc powerpc
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