[Glibc-bsd-devel] packages not available with apt-get

[Robert Millan]

On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 02:47:59PM -0500, Nathan Hawkins wrote:
> > 
> > Urgh. That triplet is wrong, it should print "i386-pc-kfreebsd-gnu".
> > 
> > If you got this when running GNU/Linux, it doesn't matter. But when compiling
> > stuff on GNU/KFreeBSD, make sure the following command:
> > 
> >   "dpkg-architecture -qDEB_HOST_GNU_SYSTEM"
> > 
> > prints "kfreebsd-gnu". Printing the wrong triplet may produce broken packages,
> > so if it doesn't, edit /usr/bin/dpkg-architecture and fix it manualy.
> 
> dpkg-architecture hadn't been fixed in the binary package last I knew.

My patch is in BTS, and dpkg maintainer said off-list that it seems ok. So
I'll just wait a while.

For now, we can build a fixed dpkg-dev and upload it to gnuab.

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Robert Millan

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