Re: console-data

[Nelson Abramson <pogtal@erols.com>]

Hartmut Koptein wrote:

> my $arch = `dpkg --print-installation-architecture`;
> chomp $arch;
>
> if (($arch eq 'powerpc') || ($arch eq 'm68k')) {
>        my $subarch;
>        if ($arch eq 'powerpc') {
>             my $line = `grep ^machine /proc/cpuinfo`;
>             abort ($defs, "No \"machine\" field in /proc/cpuinfo") if $line eq '';
>             $subarch = lc substr ($line, 11);
>         } elsif ($arch eq 'm68k') {
>             my $line = `grep ^Model: /proc/hardware`;
>             abort ($defs, "No \"Model\" field in /proc/hardware") if $line eq '';
>             $subarch = lc substr ($line, 8);
>         }
>         $subarch =~ s/ .*//;
>         chop($subarch);
>         $subarch = 'mac'        if $subarch =~ m/^macintosh|powermac|powerbook|power|imac|powermac1/;
>         $subarch = 'mvme'       if $subarch eq 'motorola';
>
>         $arch = "$arch/$subarch";
> }
>
> Test this for :    /var/lib/dpkg/info/console-data.config

Okay, I think I might have figured it out (or atleast just half assed it :-) )

I put the code into the "guess_arch" function, and it spit out the same error code.  I then modified
line 638 (well, after trying a few others w/o success) from "'powerpc/pmac' => [ 'mac' ], " to
"'powerpc/mac' => [ 'mac' ]" and it finished the configuration.

HTH
--Nelson Abramson