Hi Daniel, On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 12:36:40AM -0500, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > tags 570778 + patch pending > thanks > > In debian bug 570778, On 02/21/2010 07:35 AM, Guido Günther wrote: > > attached patch introduces DEBIRF_KERNEL_ARCH so one can set the kernel > > architecture. This is helpful if e.g. building with a 64 bit kernel but > > you want to have the 486 kernel (e.g. for an appliance like libguestfs). > > This doesn't seem too unreasonable, though you can already supply a > kernel .deb via the -k/--kernel-deb option. But one has to download it, this way giving the :lavour is enough.
> > i'm not sure that "arch" is the right term here, though -- aren't the > options just as likely to be same-arch "flavors" of kernel (e.g. > vserver-686-bigmem vs. plain ol' 686). > > I've applied a similar patch in upstream SVN [0] using the variable > DEBIRF_KERNEL_FLAVOR, which should meet these goals when we release an > updated version of debirf. Flavor is the better term. Thanks for fixing this up so quickly! -- Guido -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
