---
name: "botch-add-arch"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "botch"
version: "0.24-6+b1"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/botch-add-arch"
---

# botch-add-arch(1)

add architecture to source packages

## NAME

botch-add-arch - add architecture to source packages

## SYNOPSIS

- **botch-add-arch** \[-h\] \[-v\] *toarch* *inSources* *outSources*

  ## DESCRIPTION

Add architecture *toarch* to the `"Architecture"` field of all source packages in *inSources* which have an `"Architecture"` field that does not match *toarch* yet. The system's `"dpkg-architecture"` program is used to determine whether any architecture of the source packages' `"Architecture"` field matches *toarch*.

The files *inSources* and *outSources* are control files given in deb822 format like the ones found on archive mirrors and locally under */var/lib/apt/lists*.

*inSources* and *outSources* can point to the same file name for in-place operation. Compressed *inSources* files are decompressed on the fly independent of their filename extension. The output will be compressed as determined by the filename extension of *outSources*.

If *inSources* is equal to a single hyphen-minus (-) then its content will be read from standard input. If *outSources* is equal to a single hyphen-minus (-) then the output will be written to standard output.

## OPTIONS

- **-v, --verbose**

  Be verbose.

- **-h, --help**

  Print help message.

## EXAMPLE

Make all source packages compilable on *arm64*:

```
 botch-add-arch arm64 inSources outSources
```

## BUGS

See \<http://bugs.debian.org/botch\>.

## SEE ALSO

Debian doc-base Manual */usr/share/doc/botch/wiki/Home.html*

## AUTHOR

This man page was written by Johannes Schauer. Botch is written by Johannes Schauer and Pietro Abate.

## COPYRIGHT

Copyright 2012-2014 Johannes Schauer, Pietro Abate

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. A special linking exception to the GNU Lesser General Public License applies to this library, see the COPYING file for more information.