Maintainer scripts generated by kernel-package pass an environment variable $KERNEL_ARCH to hook scripts. This is undocumented but seems to be the architecture string that the kernel will report (e.g. through 'uname -m'). However, for the past few years our maintainer scripts have set it to the source architecture name instead. Since no-one reported this bug, I don't think anyone depends on it. codesearch didn't find any users either. So remove it. --- a/debian/templates/image.plain.postinst.in +++ b/debian/templates/image.plain.postinst.in @@ -22,7 +22,6 @@ my $use_hard_links = ''; # hardlinks my $postinst_hook = ''; #Normally we do not my $minimal_swap = ''; # Do not swap symlinks my $ignore_depmod_err = ''; # normally we do not -my $kernel_arch = "=B"; my $ramdisk = ''; my $package_name = "linux-image-$version"; @@ -99,8 +98,6 @@ if ($do_symlink && $no_symlink) { # most of our work is done in $image_dest (nominally /) chdir("$image_dest") or die "could not chdir to $image_dest:$!\n"; -$ENV{KERNEL_ARCH}=$kernel_arch if $kernel_arch; - die "Internal Error: Could not find image (" . $realimageloc . "$kimage-$version)\n" unless -e $realimageloc --- a/debian/templates/image.plain.postrm.in +++ b/debian/templates/image.plain.postrm.in @@ -24,7 +24,6 @@ my $link_in_boot = ""; my $kimage = "=K"; my $initrd = "=I"; # initrd kernel my $postrm_hook = ''; #Normally we do not -my $kernel_arch = "=B"; my $ramdisk = "=MK"; # List of tools to create initial ram fs. my $package_name = "linux-image-$version"; @@ -66,8 +65,6 @@ if (-d "$image_dest") { chdir("$image_dest") or die "could not chdir to $image_dest:$!\n"; } -$ENV{KERNEL_ARCH}=$kernel_arch if $kernel_arch; - ###################################################################### ###################################################################### --- a/debian/templates/image.plain.preinst.in +++ b/debian/templates/image.plain.preinst.in @@ -13,7 +13,6 @@ $|=1; my $version = "=V"; my $kimage = "=K"; my $preinst_hook = ''; #Normally we do not -my $kernel_arch = "=B"; my $package_name = "linux-image-$version"; #known variables @@ -40,8 +39,6 @@ if (-r "$CONF_LOC" && -f "$CONF_LOC" ) } } -$ENV{KERNEL_ARCH}=$kernel_arch if $kernel_arch; - # set the env var stem $ENV{'STEM'} = "linux"; --- a/debian/templates/image.plain.prerm.in +++ b/debian/templates/image.plain.prerm.in @@ -11,7 +11,6 @@ $|=1; my $version = "=V"; my $kimage = "=K"; my $prerm_hook = ''; #Normally we do not -my $kernel_arch = "=B"; my $package_name = "linux-image-$version"; #known variables @@ -43,8 +42,6 @@ if (-r "$CONF_LOC" && -f "$CONF_LOC" ) } -$ENV{KERNEL_ARCH}=$kernel_arch if $kernel_arch; - #check to see if we are trying to remove a running kernel # if so we abort right now. chop($running=`uname -r`); --- a/debian/changelog +++ b/debian/changelog @@ -5,6 +5,8 @@ linux (3.11~rc4-1~exp2) UNRELEASED; urge * trace: Enable UPROBES, UPROBE_EVENT (Closes: #691167) * Clean up maintainer scripts and templating system - Move all templates under debian/templates + - linux-image: Remove undocumented $KERNEL_ARCH variable from hook + environment -- Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> Sun, 11 Aug 2013 19:34:47 +0200 -- Ben Hutchings Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain. - Lily Tomlin
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