CDIST-TYPE__DPKG_ARCHITECTURE(7)

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version 7.0.0 · 8 versions
, in fedora 43, fedora 44

✨ cdist-type__dpkg_architecture ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the cdist-type__dpkg_architecture manual page, section 7 of the cdist docs 💅 this one is all about foreign architectures on debian-ish systems that dpkg is running the show on 🦋

🌸 NAME 🌸

cdist-type__dpkg_architecture — handles foreign architectures on debian-like systems managed by dpkg 🎀

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

So here's the tea ☕ this type handles foreign architectures on systems managed by dpkg(1). The object id is literally the name of the architecture that dpkg accepts — the one you wanna add or remove. no cap 💅

If the architecture isn't set up on the system yet, it adds it as a brand new foreign architecture in dpkg. And then? It updates the apt package index so packages from that new architecture are actually available. iconic behaviour tbh ✨

If the architecture should be removed instead, it'll remove it — but only if it's not the base architecture the system was originally installed on 👑 Before doing that, it purges every package based on the "to be removed" architecture via apt, so that the selected architecture can actually be removed. it's giving thorough 🧹

🫶 REQUIRED PARAMETERS 🫶

None. nothing. zero. nada. you don't have to pass anything bestie 😭✨

🎀 OPTIONAL PARAMETERS 🎀

  • state — present or absent. Defaults to present 💖

💌 MESSAGES 💌

  • added — added the specified architecture 🎉
  • removed — removed the specified architecture 🗑️✨

💀 ABORTS 💀

It aborts in the following cases, and bestie, pay attention:

  • If dpkg(1) isn't available. It will abort with a proper error message — no cryptic nonsense, we're polite here 🫶
  • If the architecture is the same as the base architecture the system is built upon (that's the one returned by dpkg --print-architecture) and it should be removed. like, you literally cannot remove the thing your whole system is standing on 😭
  • It will fail if it can't execute apt(8). It's assumed that it's already installed — that's on you, bestie 🙈

🌈 EXAMPLES 🌈

# add i386 (32 bit) architecture
__dpkg_architecture i386

# remove it again :)
__dpkg_architecture i386 --state absent

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

Useful commands, bookmark these fr fr ⭐

# base architecture installed on this system
dpkg --print-architecture

# extra architectures added
dpkg --print-foreign-architectures

👑 AUTHORS 👑

Matthias Stecher <matthiasstecher at gmx.de> 💜

💅 COPYING 💅

Copyright (C) 2020 Matthias Stecher. You can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. slay, open source 🫶

ungleich GmbH 2021 🌸

and that's the whole page bestie, no notes 💖 this was version 7.0.0, dated Jul 31, 2022 — go forth and multiarch, periodt ✨🎀🦋

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