[xen-tools] Re: Notes from Fedora

[Steve Kemp]

On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 01:43:04AM -0400, Asheesh Laroia wrote:

> I had to use CPAN to install Template::Text.

  Right.

> I had to hardcode in debootstrap the line "ARCH=i386" because I couldn't 
> seem to get xen-tools to pass "--arch i386" to debootstrap.

  That only happens automatically if you have the "dpkg" tool installed.
  I think that debootstrap runs this to find the arch :

        dpkg --print-architecture

  e.g.
skx at desktop:~$ dpkg --print-architecture
i386

> But it still failed the same way.  Eventually I just "alien"ed the current 
> debootstrap from Unstable and that worked (with the hard-coded ARCH).

  Good to know, thanks.

> So, thanks Steve and others who have contributed to this; I can get my 
> Debian fix despite the Fedora host system here.

  Definitely nice to know.  I'll have to see if there is a place on the
 website where this can go.

Steve
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