Bug#750925: "make deb-pkg" produces a non-installable package on the s390x architecture

[Stephen Powell <zlinuxman@wowway.com>]

On Sun, 08 Jun 2014 09:59:47 -0400 (EDT), maximilian attems wrote:
> 
> see scripts/package/builddeb:
>         s390*)
>                 debarch=s390 ;;
> 
> this debarch setting very likely predates s390x

Thanks for the tip.  While looking at this file, I discovered
a circumvention.  Use the make variable

   KBUILD_DEBARCH=s390x

This works, even with an unmodified builddeb script.  In my test case,
I set CONFIG_LOCALVERSION to "-1custom01-s390x" during kernel configuration
(under "General Setup").  I also set CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO off.   (This is under
"Kernel Hacking".)  Then I issued

   make KDEB_PKGVERSION=3.14.4-1 KBUILD_PKG_ROOTCMD=fakeroot \
   INSTALL_MOD_STRIP=1 KBUILD_DEBARCH=s390x deb-pkg

as a non-root user.  It built a kernel image package just the way I wanted it.

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