Hello, On Wed, Aug 21, 2024 at 07:52:14AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > It's extremely likely that whatever arch /bin/ls uses is the "primary" > arch for the system. It works on every Linux system I've encountered, > even if the kernel doesn't match it. > > Of course, for Debian specifically, there's also > > dpkg --print-architecture > > If that agrees with file /bin/ls, then you've got one more level of trust.
I'm sure that if a reader has done the following they would know and remember, but I do have some i386 Debian hosts which were partially cross-graded to amd64 only as far as running the amd64 kernel while leaving all of the user land and the primary dpkg architecture as i386. This is a supported configuration. In that case "uname -a" reports the amd64 kernel correctly, while "file /bin/ls" and "dpkg --print-architecture" both still report i386! 😀 Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting
