On Fri, 15 Apr 2011, Robert Gordon wrote: > This patch was prepared using git format-patch and git send-email. Details follow. > Regards, > Robert Gordon thanks so the patch was now applyable and so testable. (: > scripts/package/builddeb script was setting the host machine $arch in the KERNEL/debian/control prior to an invocation of dpkg-gencontrol. The patch modifies the script to guarantee the correct debian arch for the target is written to the control file instead. The issue originally arose in the 2.6.38 series. hmm don't be shy to use line-breaks in the desc for next times.. > Signed-off-by: Robert Gordon <robert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> rudimentary testing showed, that `make deb-pkg` works, but `make ARCH=i386 deb-pkg` on an amd64 Debian box seems borked: + dpkg-gencontrol -isp -DArchitecture=i386 -plinux-headers-2.6.39-rc3+ -P/media/data/mattems/src/linux-2.6/debian/hdrtmp dpkg-gencontrol: error: current host architecture 'amd64' does not appear in package's architecture list (i386) had no time to investigate yet, hope you will do. greetings -- maks -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html