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authorAdrian Gibanel Lopez <adrian.gibanel@btactic.com>2017-12-15 17:22:57 +0000
committeradrian15 <adrian15sgd@gmail.com>2019-03-14 23:06:31 +0100
commit80aa5ab61100b6b11ae47984bab9a2eb988074f5 (patch)
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Fixed foreign architecture package support to linux kernel flavours
Before Stretch there was an special amd64 kernel in the i386 arch repo. So if you wanted to install an amd64 kernel alongside an i386 system you did not need an additional arch repo. Debian added multiarch support. That way you can install library packages from multiple architectures on the same machine. So there is no longer a need for having an amd64 kernel in i386 arch repo. You can add an amd64 arch repo to an i386 arch system and fetch the amd64 kernel from the am64 arch repo. live-build can be setup to use several linux kernel flavours in a single image. So in the days previous to this patch you could issue: lb config --linux-flavours "486 amd64" to use both 486 and amd64 kernel flavours. Adding additional arch support to linux flavours poses two problems: * Packages need to have its arch suffix (e.g. amd64:amd64). If the suffix is not there apt-get insists on search amd64 kernel package on i386 arch repo and, of course, fails to find it. * The rest of the code which handles labels (bootloader config files) or installed filenames (kernel images themselves) do not use the arch suffix. This patch adds foreign architecture package support to linux kernel flavours having taken those problems into account. Practical example usage: i386 system and extra amd64 kernel. First add amd64 foreign architecture in your i386 system thanks to: dpkg --add-architecture amd64 apt-get update . Finally enable amd64 kernel from amd64 arch alongside the i386 system's 686 kernel thanks to: lb config --architectures i386 --linux-flavours "686 amd64:amd64"
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1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/manpages/en/lb_config.1 b/manpages/en/lb_config.1
index ac562d209..e46331ec7 100644
--- a/manpages/en/lb_config.1
+++ b/manpages/en/lb_config.1
@@ -360,7 +360,7 @@ sets the eraseblock size for a JFFS2 (Second Journaling Flash File System) files
.IP "\fB\-\-keyring\-packages\fR \fIPACKAGE\fI|""\fIPACKAGES\fR""" 4
sets the keyring package or additional keyring packages. By default this is set to debian\-archive\-keyring.
.IP "\-k|\fB\-\-linux\-flavours\fR \fIFLAVOUR\fR|""\fIFLAVOURS\fR""" 4
-sets the kernel flavours to be installed. Note that in case you specify more than that the first will be configured the default kernel that gets booted.
+sets the kernel flavours to be installed. Note that in case you specify more than that the first will be configured the default kernel that gets booted. Optionally you can use an architecture qualifier, e.g. amd64:amd64. Given an i386 system you can enable amd64 foreign architecture thanks to the commands: "dpkg \-\-add\-architecture amd64 ; apt\-get update". This enables you to use "686 amd64:amd64" as a linux flavour. The amd64 kernel will be installed alongside the i386's 686 kernel.
.IP "\fB\-\-linux\-packages\fR ""\fIPACKAGES\fR""" 4
sets the internal name of the kernel packages naming scheme. If you use debian kernel packages, you will not have to adjust it. If you decide to use custom kernel packages that do not follow the debian naming scheme, remember to set this option to the stub of the packages only (for debian this is linux\-image\-2.6), so that \fISTUB\fR-\fIFLAVOUR\fR results in a valid package name (for debian e.g. linux\-image\-686\-pae). Preferably you use the meta package name, if any, for the stub, so that your configuration is ABI independent. Also don't forget that you have to include stubs of the binary modules packages for unionfs or aufs, and squashfs if you built them out-of-tree.
.IP "\fB\-\-losetup\fR losetup|losetup.orig" 4