Hi,
> > On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 01:46:49PM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote:
> > > I was discussing with Christian Perrier at dinner and he mentioned
> > > that the new-style architecture specifications (Build-Depends: XXX
> > > [linux-any] etc.) may have been reverted. I'm not quite sure about
> > > that since the documentation and changelogs are quite scarse about
> > > dpkg-dev stuff.
> > >
> > > Am I okay in going ahead with committing this change to pbuilder ?
>
> Please use instead dpkg-architecture -e or -i options (documented in
> the man page), so that we have this code centralized there, and can
> extend or fix it in just one place.
The descriptions for the following are very vague.
I suggest you reword them to:
.BI "-e" "debian-architecture"
Check for equality of architecture. By default the
.I "debian-architecture"
is compared against the current Debian Architecture, being the host.
.B "-e"
will not expand architecture aliases.
Command exits with exit code of 0 if matched, 1 if not matched.
.BI "-i" "architecture-alias"
.B "-i"
will expand
.I "architecture-alias"
as an Architecture Alias, and is compared against the current Debian
Architecture.
Command exits with exit code of 0 if matched, 1 if not matched.
Some examples would be nice too.
> You'll have to depend on a new enough version of dpkg (1.13.17) or
> conditionally use the feature if that dpkg version is present.
>
> About the bug report, if you find the documentation lacking in
> dpkg-architecture's man page I can extend it, otherwise please
> close it.
please close bug #370830 with an updated manpage.
Build-Depends is usually a space-delimited list; I assume
dpkg-architecture does not take a list of architectures; which means
it needs to be forked every time an architecture string exists.
I have another concern. dpkg-architecture is a pretty expensive
program to fork/exec, and I don't think it's realistic to expect
everyone to be using this code.
regards,
junichi
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