Re: pending linux-2.6 changes
On Sat, Apr 01, 2006 at 09:44:15AM -0800, Jurij Smakov wrote:
> My question is why are you
> cross-compiling at all (and which arch).
i386, s390 and m68k.
> cross-compiling at all (and which arch). Of course, it is nice to be able
> to help slow arches, but if you are building stuff in the special
> cross-compiling environment on your machine, and then upload the resulting
> packages to the archive, this is not a good idea (and, as I understand, is
> frowned upon by ftp-masters).
This is the responsibility of the architecture maintainers. And at least
m68k decided that they can't build the kernels native.
> The reason if simple: if the native build on
> the buildds is never performed, there is a fair chance that it will fail
> when a security update is required. How your does your scheme account for
> that?
The same assumption that above applies. For sarge it was clear, the
packages are built by hand.
Bastian
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