On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 11:20:44AM +0100, Holger Levsen wrote: > On Donnerstag, 22. Januar 2015, Niko Tyni wrote: > > - the build system also embeds information about the build host, at > > least the kernel version and hostname. Those need to be stripped too. > [...] > > I assume varying uname et al. isn't actively tested yet? > > no, not yet. and varying hostname is only tested since last week, so most > packages have not yet been tested for that. (but will be in a few months.) > > are there ways to "properly" fake uname or do I really need to setup > something > in qemu to test^wsimulate builds under different kernels?
A quick search indicates that there's no separate namespace for other uname(2) information than the host name and domain name. This suggests that something like http://www.bstern.org/libuname/ is needed. I'm not aware of anything in Debian already that does that. Time for an RFP maybe :) -- Niko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
