debian_inspector.utils module
- debian_inspector.utils.find_debian_architecture()
Find the Debian architecture of the current environment.
Uses
os.uname()
to determine the current machine architecture (the fifth value returned byos.uname()
) and translates it into one of the machine architecture labels used in the Debian packaging system:Machine architecture
Debian architecture
i686
i386
x86_64
amd64
armv6l
armhf
When the machine architecture is not listed above, this function falls back to the external command
dpkg-architecture -qDEB_BUILD_ARCH
(provided by thedpkg-dev
package). This command is not used by default because:deb-pkg-tools doesn’t have a strict dependency on
dpkg-dev
.The
dpkg-architecture
program enables callers to set the current architecture and the exact semantics of this are unclear to me at the time of writing (it can’t automagically provide a cross compilation environment, so what exactly does it do?).
- Returns:
The Debian architecture (a string like
i386
,amd64
,armhf
, etc).- Raises:
ExternalCommandFailed
when thedpkg-architecture
program is not available or reports an error.