Questions regarding diversion of flash-kernel while building chroot
Hi Colin,
I was curious why it is necessary to use dpkg-divert to temporarily
disable /usr/sbin/flash-kernel per your patch accepted to live-build
upstream but not start-stop-daemon which is instead just moved aside
with mv a few lines above. Is it to properly handle the case where the
file is updated via package upgrade? If so, I assume the other instances
like start-stop-daemon need to be fixed to use dpkg-divert as well?
Additionally, I see you symlink /bin/true from outside the chroot to act
as a dummy /usr/sbin/flash-kernel. This is problematic if the (E)ABI
between the host system and chroot system are incompatible (eg. armel
host and armhf chroot) as the binary will not be executable and thus
most likely cause the build to fail if flash-kernel is called. I've
filed bug #661871 in Debian BTS regarding this.
Cheers,
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