On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 10:56:51AM +0100, Guido Günther wrote: > 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! Any chance we see this in Debian anytime soon? This would be great since it's need to get libguestfs finally packaged. Cheers, -- Guido
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