Bug#594424: brittle implementation of ubuntutools.misc.host_architecture()

[Jakub Wilk]

Package: ubuntu-dev-tools
Version: 0.101
Severity: normal



$ dpkg --print-architecture
hppa
$ python -c 'from ubuntutools.misc import host_architecture; print 
host_architecture()'
parisc64



$ dpkg --print-architecture
i386
$ python -c 'from ubuntutools.misc import host_architecture; print 
host_architecture()'
amd64

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Jakub Wilk

host_architecture() uses os.uname() to determine host architecture. However, uname() returns a "machine hardware name", which can be something quite different, e.g.: Most importantly, host_architecture() returns the wrong thing for an i386 system with amd64 kernel:

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