On Fri, Aug 16, 2002 at 04:28:53PM -0700, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > Hi, how can I easily determine the host architecture string in a > maintainer script? dpkg-architecture is in the dpkg-dev package, which I > obviously cannot depend on. I could massage the output of uname or arch, > but that seems too ugly (and I don't even know what all the possible > outputs are).
Your question has already been answered, but why do you need this information in a maintainer script? -- - mdz