Debian Developers - Re: FTFBS in sarge

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Re: FTFBS in sarge

Jens Schmalzing

2004-09-06, 5:51 pm

Hi,

Goswin von Brederlow writes:

> Strangely enough some kernel-patch/image packages build fine on
> foreign archs. I haven't looked at what they do but it seems to
> work. Maybe they use the kernels default config to avoid loops in
> oldconfig.

kernel-patch-powerpc doesn't even bother to unpack the kernel source
if it's running on a foreign arch. As a consequence, make-kpkg is
never called at all.

Regards, Jens.

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