Debian Bug report logs - #9893
FIXED in NMU [was: dpkg: dpkg-gencontrol doesn't honour -DArchtecture=xxxx]

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Heiko Schlittermann <heiko@lotte.sax.de>

To: submit@bugs.debian.org

Subject: dpkg: dpkg-gencontrol doesn't honour -DArchtecture=xxxx

Date: Sat, 17 May 1997 19:07:23 +0200 (CEST)

Package: dpkg
Version: 1.4.0.8

Hello Klee,

as a former short time dpkg maintainer  ... I've triggered or introduced
(doesn't matter) the -D option to dpkg-gencontrol.  I needed this for
a multi platform build of the xforms package (coming as binary ``source''
only) for i386, m68k and for alpha.  

The support of -DArchitecture seems to be buggy, I've fixed it somewhat.
Probably it's a hack, but, at least for me, a necessary hack.  

#### dpkg-gencontrol
diff -u /usr/bin/dpkg-gencontrol /tmp/dpkg-gencontrol
--- /usr/bin/dpkg-gencontrol	Mon Feb  3 19:54:54 1997
+++ /tmp/dpkg-gencontrol	Sat May 17 18:56:10 1997
@@ -87,8 +87,10 @@
     }
 }
 
-$arch=`dpkg --print-architecture`;
-$? && &subprocerr("dpkg --print-architecture");
+$arch = $override{Architecture} or do {
+	$arch=`dpkg --print-architecture`;
+	$? && &subprocerr("dpkg --print-architecture");
+};
 $arch =~ s/\n$//;
 
 &parsechangelog;
@@ -206,7 +208,8 @@
 if (open(X,"< $fileslistfile")) {
     while (<X>) {
         s/\n$//;
-        next if m/^([-+0-9a-z.]+)_[^_]+_\w+\.deb / && $1 eq $oppackage;
+        next if m/^([-+0-9a-z.]+)_[^_]+_(\w+)\.deb / 
+		&& ($1 eq $oppackage) && ($2 eq $arch);
         print(Y "$_\n") || &syserr("copy old entry to new files list file");
     }
 } elsif ($! != ENOENT) {



-- System Information
Debian Release: 1.3
Kernel Version: Linux eremit 2.0.29 #3 Tue Apr 8 22:33:11 CEST 1997 i586 unknown

Versions of the packages dpkg depends on:
libc5	Version: 5.4.23-3
ncurses3.0	Version: 1.9.9e-1

Message #16 received at 9893@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Ian Jackson <ian@davenant.greenend.org.uk>

To: 9893@bugs.debian.org, Heiko Schlittermann <heiko@lotte.sax.de>

Subject: Fixed in my own tree

Date: Tue, 2 Mar 1999 22:34:36 +0000 (GMT)

forwarded 9893 ian@davenant.greenend.org.uk
quit

Heiko: you suggested a patch for the bug #9893 regarding
dpkg-gencontrol, -DArchitecture and xforms.  FYI, the fix that's going
into my new non-NMU dpkg tree (to be released in several months) is
semantically different from the fix you propose, in that it will only
affect the files list output.

Ian.

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