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Re: Re: Bug#748936: apt doesnt understand architecture wildcards



On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 12:31:52PM +0100, Balint Reczey wrote:
> On 06/04/2014 03:41 AM, Guillem Jover wrote:
> >  * Other programs could “easily” use dpkg-architecture to check for
> >    identity or a match. (This poses problems for programs that do not
> 
> I think making apt call dpkg-architecture for matching would be a good
> way of ensuring consistency with dpkg. Caching the results in a hash
> table would make matching even faster than it is currently.

dpkg-architecture is in dpkg-dev, so not reliably usable at run-time.
dpkg doesn't currently provide a way to make this kind of query without
development tools installed.  It's also probably not trivial to move it
because its current implementation relies on dpkg's Perl modules, which
also aren't part of the core dpkg binary package.

I think this is somewhat unfortunate, but it is the reality right now.
Perhaps a good thing for somebody to work on would be reimplementing
dpkg-architecture in C so that it could be moved to the dpkg binary
package?

-- 
Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson@debian.org]


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