DA bug report logs - #446023
util-linux: arch command is missing

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

From: Francis Russell <francisrussell3001-dbts@yahoo.co.uk>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
Subject: util-linux: arch command is missing
Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2007 22:41:27 +0100

Package: util-linux
Version: 2.13-8
Severity: normal

The arch command which is supposed to be part of this package is no longer built. 
It can be re-enabled by specifying the --with-arch option to the configure script.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (900, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.22.9 (PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages util-linux depends on:
ii  libc6                   2.6.1-1+b1       GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libncurses5             5.6+20070908-1   Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libselinux1             2.0.15-2+b1      SELinux shared libraries
ii  libslang2               2.0.7-3          The S-Lang programming library - r
ii  libuuid1                1.40.2-1         universally unique id library
ii  lsb-base                3.1-24           Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
ii  tzdata                  2007g-2          time zone and daylight-saving time
ii  zlib1g                  1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-5 compression library - runtime

util-linux recommends no packages.

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Message #10 received at 446023@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox):

From: LaMont Jones <lamont@debian.org>
To: Francis Russell <francisrussell3001-dbts@yahoo.co.uk>,
	446023@bugs.debian.org
Cc: control@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Re: Bug#446023: util-linux: arch command is missing
Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2007 16:35:46 -0600

tags 446023 + wontfix
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arch is depricated.  use 'uname -m', which does the same thing only
better.

lamont

Message #17 received at 446023@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox):

From: Marcelo <marcelo.magallon@gmail.com>
To: Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org>
Cc: 516050@bugs.debian.org, 446023@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Re: Bug#516050: coreutils: /bin/arch not provided
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 21:12:56 -0600

On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 8:14 PM, Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> wrote:

> ah, it's optionally built from the uname source. Too late for lenny. I
> suggest using uname -m.

 As you wish, sir.

 I can't care less about there being /bin/arch or not.  The point
 is that I ran into a script that uses "arch" instead of "uname
 -m" for I don't know what reason (I suspect there was a time
 when the output of "uname -m" and "arch" didn't match).  And
 said script seems to run just fine on every other major Linux
 distribution out there but Debian.

 Looking at the changelog in the util-linux source package,
 Lamont seemed be very aware of /bin/arch going away, and looking
 at the comments in util-linux's source, it seems this was not a
 random whim but it was actually a thought out change.

 Since you don't seem to wish to upload this to lenny as a
 proposed-update and fixing it for squeeze doesn't seem to make
 much sense to me (I mean, in one year's time anything still
 depending on /bin/arch will certainly have some workaround in
 place), you can just close the bug if you wish.

 Thanks,

 Marcelo

Message #22 received at 446023@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox):

From: Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org>
To: Marcelo <marcelo.magallon@gmail.com>
Cc: 516050@bugs.debian.org, 446023@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Re: Bug#516050: coreutils: /bin/arch not provided
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 06:39:15 -0500

On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 09:12:56PM -0600, Marcelo wrote:
> I can't care less about there being /bin/arch or not.  The point
> is that I ran into a script that uses "arch" instead of "uname
> -m" for I don't know what reason (I suspect there was a time
> when the output of "uname -m" and "arch" didn't match).

I'd expect it's more prosaic than that (like arch was the first thing 
tried). uname -m is a POSIX requirement; arch is not. 

> Since you don't seem to wish to upload this to lenny as a
> proposed-update and fixing it for squeeze doesn't seem to make
> much sense to me 

Agreed that targeting the next release seems silly. If I'd known about 
the issue before lenny froze I would have included it in coreutils. At 
this point, unless there's a groundswell of support for the arch 
command, I think it's just too late.

Mike Stone

Message #27 received at 446023-done@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox):

From: Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>
To: 446023-done@bugs.debian.org
Subject: fixed in coreutils
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:40:36 -0500

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I see that arch was added to coreutils 7.4-1.

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