Re: Custom kernel comes out as wrong arch

[alexmcwhirter@triadic.us]

On 2016-07-28 13:19, alexmcwhirter@triadic.us wrote:
> I've been working on some kernel customizations to fix a few issues,
> and went ahead and compiled a kernel with " make deb-pkg". The problem
> is that the resulting .deb is the wrong arch.
>
> dpkg -i linux-headers-4.6.4-rt6-5yn3r6y_4.6.4-1_sparc.deb
> dpkg: error processing archive
> linux-headers-4.6.4-rt6-5yn3r6y_4.6.4-1_sparc.deb (--install):
>  package architecture (sparc) does not match system (sparc64)
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  linux-headers-4.6.4-rt6-5yn3r6y_4.6.4-1_sparc.deb
>
> Is there a way to override the arch to sparc64 when building or did i
> make a mistake along the way?

Turns out the kernel's deb build script needed a bit of tweaking, i 
noted this down to be put on the wiki.