Hi, 2016-01-20 14:39 GMT+01:00 Colin Watson <cjwat...@debian.org>: > On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 12:31:52PM +0100, Balint Reczey wrote: >> On 06/04/2014 03:41 AM, Guillem Jover wrote: >> > * Other programs could “easily” use dpkg-architecture to check for >> > identity or a match. (This poses problems for programs that do not >> >> I think making apt call dpkg-architecture for matching would be a good >> way of ensuring consistency with dpkg. Caching the results in a hash >> table would make matching even faster than it is currently. > > dpkg-architecture is in dpkg-dev, so not reliably usable at run-time. > dpkg doesn't currently provide a way to make this kind of query without > development tools installed. It's also probably not trivial to move it > because its current implementation relies on dpkg's Perl modules, which > also aren't part of the core dpkg binary package. > > I think this is somewhat unfortunate, but it is the reality right now. > Perhaps a good thing for somebody to work on would be reimplementing > dpkg-architecture in C so that it could be moved to the dpkg binary > package? I may check that option, but in the meantime I'm thinking about patching APT to recognize musl-linux-<cpu> and hardened1-linux-<cpu> as linux-any.
For the record there is a matching logic in dose3 which works well in my use case: https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-ocaml-maint/packages/dose3.git/tree/deb/architecture.ml Cheers, Balint
