Re: [PATCH] builddeb: remove unneeded explicit Architecture

[Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir.cohen@xorcom.com>]

Hi,

Thanks for your reply,

On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 03:50:10PM +0200, Michal Marek wrote:
> Adding Max to CC.
> 
> On 14.8.2012 12:44, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> > Architecture was set explicitly in debian/control for one of the three
> > packages (linux-libc-dev) but not for the other two. When cross-building
> > it gives me an error:
> > 
> >   dpkg-gencontrol: error: current host architecture 'armhf' does not
> >   appear in package's architecture list (amd64)
> > 
> > Also note that if used, dpkg --print-architecture should have been
> > replaced with dpkg-architecture.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir.cohen@xorcom.com>
> > ---
> >  scripts/package/builddeb |    3 +--
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/scripts/package/builddeb b/scripts/package/builddeb
> > index acb8650..d9c71a6 100644
> > --- a/scripts/package/builddeb
> > +++ b/scripts/package/builddeb
> > @@ -252,13 +252,12 @@ mkdir -p "$destdir"
> >  (cd $objtree; tar -c -f - -T "$objtree/debian/hdrobjfiles") | (cd $destdir; tar -xf -)
> >  ln -sf "/usr/src/linux-headers-$version" "$kernel_headers_dir/lib/modules/$version/build"
> >  rm -f "$objtree/debian/hdrsrcfiles" "$objtree/debian/hdrobjfiles"
> > -arch=$(dpkg --print-architecture)
> >  
> >  cat <<EOF >> debian/control
> >  
> >  Package: $kernel_headers_packagename
> >  Provides: linux-headers, linux-headers-2.6
> > -Architecture: $arch
> > +Architecture: any
> >  Description: Linux kernel headers for $KERNELRELEASE on $arch
> >   This package provides kernel header files for $KERNELRELEASE on $arch
> >   .
> 
> As the package contains files from arch/$SRCARCH/include, I doubt that
> this is a valid change.

But you optionally force the Architecture later on in build_package.
"Arhcitecture: any" in the source package states that the binary package
will be the one stated by the build system.

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