Download template delivers armhf binaries although armel requested about distrobuilder HOT 3 CLOSED

Moving to distrobuilder as I think I've tracked down the issue to the logic we have to translate between architecture names. As armel is a userspace name with the kernel name being the same for armel and armhf, we incorrectly remap armel requests to armhf...

I sent a somewhat ugly fix which special cases armel and skips the translation in such cases.

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The lxc-debian template also seems to fail in its host 'auto-detection' which was a puzzle until I learned to explicitly feed it with --arch armel. Perhaps similar issues.

lxc-debian uses arch=$(uname -m) to set hostarch, but doesn't seem to "fix it up".

FWIW, on this Debianized armel box:

uname -m;uname -s
armv5tel
Linux

I don't have a Debianized armhf box. The RaspberryPi, which I think is perhaps a mostly Debianized box, and needs --arch armhf, gives:

uname -m;uname -s
armv6l
Linux

There are other variants, I have an armv5tejl somewhere.

I suppose dpkg --print-architecture might give the definitive userspace name on a debian/debian_derived box, if it is installed.

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Thanks, armel binaries now arriving, as expected.

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