On 16.03.2026 13:09, Miao Wang wrote:
ipxe build-depends on:
- qemu-system-i386:amd64 | qemu-system-i386:amd64
qemu-system-x86 depends on missing:
- ipxe-qemu:amd64 (> 1.21.1+git20220113.fbbdc3926+dfsg-1~)
This installability chain doesn't seem to work on the buildds with
the current state in unstable.
I don't know why this should happen. The previous version ipxe-qemu was
actually in the archive before my upload. Actually it was available when
building on amd64, so building on amd64 was successful. Why it became
unavailable when building on all? I don't quite understand the reason
and I don't know how to prevent this from happening.
This is a general issue on buildds when a package build-depends on
itself (either directly or through an inter-dependency). Sometimes
it works, but once any build failure happens, it wont work anymore until
dependencies are changed.
This is why I created a special build profile for qemu (it build-depends
on itself directly), - because if any error happens when building, it
wont work anymore and needs to be re-uploaded with missing pieces
included.
In qemu things are a bit easier, since it build-depends on arch-all
component of itself (qemu-system-data) when building arch-indep
pieces only. Here with ipxe, things are a bit more complicated.
How ipxe uses qemu-system-x86 during build, exactly?
Thanks,
/mjt
