Re: [PATCH] kbuild, deb-pkg: select userland architecture based on UTS_MACHINE

maximilian attems
2010-11-05T13:36:47Z

On Fri, Nov 05, 2010 at 01:30:08PM +0000, Asbjoern Sloth Toennesen wrote:
> Instead of creating the debian package for the compiling userland,
> create it for a userland matching the kernel thats being compiled.
>
> This patch supports all Lenny release architectures,
> and Linux-based architecture candidates for Squeeze.
>
> If it can't find a proper Debian userspace it displays a warning,
> and fallback to let deb-gencontrol use the host's userspace arch.
>
> Eg. with this patch the following make command:
>
> make ARCH=i386 deb-pkg
>
> will output an i386 Debian package instead of an amd64 one,
> when run on an amd64 machine.
>
> Signed-off-by: Asbjoern Sloth Toennesen <asbjorn@asbjorn.biz>

please add my ack as Debian linux-2.6 maintainer.

Acked-by: maximilian attems <max@stro.at>
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> scripts/package/builddeb | 35 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
> 1 files changed, 34 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
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