Bug 39108 – debootstrap runs dpkg in such a way as to prevent proper operation

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: VERIFIED FIXED

[Description Noah 2004-01-22 21:04:08 UTC]

debootstrap runs 'dpkg --print-architecture' when it's being made. On a debian system (x86), it will get 'i386', which it understands. On gentoo, a warning it thrown.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge dpkg
2. emerge debootstrap
3.

Actual Results:  
>>> Unpacking debootstrap_0.1.17.30.tar.gz to
/var/tmp/portage/debootstrap-0.1.17.30/work
>>> Source unpacked.
dpkg: warning, architecture `i686-pc-linux-gnu' not in remapping table


Expected Results:  
dpkg doesn't grok 'i686-pc-linux-gnu'. There are a couple pf possible solutions
here:

1) patch dpkg so that it understands 'i686-pc-linux-gnu'
2) patch debootstrap's Makefile to run 'dpkg --print-installation-architecture',
which outputs 'i386'

I would personally tend to lean towards option 1, since I'm not sure what
implementing #2 might break.

Portage 2.0.49-r21 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r9, 2.4.24-grsec)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.4.24-grsec i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.10
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -funroll-loops -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER="gcc3"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/s
hare/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -funroll-loops -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs buildpkg ccache sandbox userpriv usersandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linu
x/distributions/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=""
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X apm arts avi berkdb crypt cups encode foomaticdb gdbm gif gnome gpm gtk g
tk2 imlib jpeg kde libg++ libwww mad mikmod mmx motif mpeg ncurses nls oggvorbis
 opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline sdl slang spell sse
 ssl svga tcpd truetype usb x86 xml2 xmms xv zlib"

[Comment 1 Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) 2004-01-22 21:15:43 UTC]

and it looks like we're 19 microversions behind anyway

[Comment 2 Heinrich Wendel (RETIRED) 2004-01-23 11:13:32 UTC]

fixed that in dpkg-1.10.18 and bumped debootstrap to 0.2.23

[Comment 3 Noah 2004-01-23 17:07:19 UTC]

Verified; thanks for the fast response.