Bug#695244: which_deb fails when trying to build source cds from an archive that doesn't have i386 or amd64 binaries
tags 695244 +pending
thanks
On Thu, Dec 06, 2012 at 02:47:58AM +0000, peter green wrote:
>Package: debian-cd
>
>I've been working on trying to build cd images for raspbian using
>debian-cd. While doing this I found that when building source cds
>which_deb only looks for i386 and amd64 packages files. If it finds
>neither it fails horriblly. This prevents building source CDs for
>derivatives that focus on specific non-pc architectures like
>raspbian.
>
>By fails horriblly I mean that rather than the failure of which_deb
>to find a usable packages file being reported to the user the failure
>results in crazy values in makefile variables (e.g. directory names
>in variables which should contain file names) which in turn cause the
>build process to fail in ways that have no obvious relation to the
>real issue.
>
>To get things working for raspbian I just added armhf to the list of
>architectures but this isn't really a good soloution in general.
Fixed in svn now...
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