Bug 710829

Summary:	debootstrap in Fedora 15 cannot detect the architecture to use
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Paul Wise (Debian) <pabs3>
Component:	debootstrap	Assignee:	Jan Vcelak <jvcelak>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	15	CC:	jvcelak, pertusus, tsmetana
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Description Paul Wise (Debian) 2011-06-05 06:01:09 UTC

When running debootstrap in Fedora 15 I get this message:

# debootstrap squeeze debian-squeeze-chroot http://ftp.au.debian.org/debian
E: Couldn't work out current architecture

Which means I need to manually set the architecture using --arch=amd64. It would be better if debootstrap could detect the right architecture to save me typing it.

Comment 1 Jan Vcelak 2011-06-20 10:54:19 UTC

According to the debootstrap manual page, --arch= option should be used if 'dpkg' package is not installed (which is usual in Fedora). I think that this behavior is correct and we should not change it. Adding and maintaining Fedora-only patch for this issue might bring more problems than fix real ones.

Anyway, you can have multiarch system with Fedora. Therefore a safe detection is complicated. And also architecture names are different in Debian and Fedora, e.g. amd64 vs x86_64.

This is the reason I'm closing this bug as WONTFIX now. If you have some strong reasons for fixing this, feel free to reopen the bug.