itz> Hi, how can I easily determine the host architecture string in a itz> maintainer script? dpkg-architecture is in the dpkg-dev package, itz> which I obviously cannot depend on. I could massage the output itz> of uname or arch, but that seems too ugly (and I don't even know itz> what all the possible outputs are).
Matt> Your question has already been answered, but why do you need Matt> this information in a maintainer script? The package uses a generic name for one of its configuration files. I want to create a symlink from the generic name to the correct (architecture-dependent) one. -- Ian Zimmerman, Oakland, California, U.S.A. GPG: 433BA087 9C0F 194F 203A 63F7 B1B8 6E5A 8CA3 27DB 433B A087 EngSoc adopts market economy: cheap is wasteful, efficient is expensive.
