Debian Bug report logs - #664854
kernel-package no longer supports armel architecture

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: David Madore <david+bugs@madore.org>

To: submit@bugs.debian.org

Subject: kernel-package no longer supports armel architecture

Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 12:28:26 +0100

Package: kernel-package
Version: 12.036+nmu2
Severity: important

make-kpkg no longer recognizes "armel" as a valid parameter to the
--arch switch: passing it causes the following error when trying to do
anything:

debian/ruleset/misc/checks.mk:36: *** Error. I do not know where the kernel image goes to [kimagedest undefined] The usual case for this is that I could not determine which arch or subarch this machine belongs to. Please specify a subarch, and try again..  Stop.

This is due to the following part of the changelog:

>     - Merge armel.mk into arm.mk

But armel.mk was not "merged" into anything, it was purely removed,
along with its functionality!  There is not mention of armel anywhere
inside arm.mk.

(Using --arch arm does not work either, since it produces a .deb with
"arm" rather than "armel" architecture.)

[Rationale for marking severity as "important": this bug makes it
impossible to compile Debian kernel packages for armel.  Not marking
as "grave" because other architectures are still functional.]

-- 
     David A. Madore
   ( http://www.madore.org/~david/ )

Message #10 received at 664854@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Andrew Bradford <andrew@bradfordembedded.com>

To: 664854@bugs.debian.org

Cc: david+bugs@madore.org

Subject: kernel-package and armel

Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2012 15:26:19 -0400

Have you tried using `DEB_HOST_ARCH=armel` and `--arch arm`?

I'm able to build an armel kernel_image deb like this:

$ DEB_HOST_ARCH=armel fakeroot make-kpkg --arch arm --cross-compile arm-linux-gnueabi- -j 5 kernel_image

My armel system seems to be OK with it.  If I don't set the DEB_HOST_ARCH
and build with --arch arm, my armel system is not OK with it: dpkg will
complain about the deb being made for arm, not armel.

I'm not sure how much of a bug this is.  Can you confirm if you're able
to build armel .debs by using DEB_HOST_ARCH?

There might be a lack of documentation showing that this is now how to
build for armel, there's only 1 little part of the README and the example
is for i386/amd64, not armel.  But I get the impression that the "merge"
really did happen.

This also looks very similar to bug 671533 [1].

[1]: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=671533

Thanks,
Andrew

Message #15 received at 664854@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Elliott Mitchell <ehem+outbound@m5p.com>

To: 664854@bugs.debian.org

Subject: --subarch perhaps?

Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2012 00:01:27 -0700

Have you tried the options --arch=arm, --subarch=armel? Based on how I
got things working elsewhere, I suspect this combination of options
*might* get the desired result.

If so, this surprises me a bit, since you can use --arch=amd64, rather
than --arch=x86 --subarch=amd64.


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Message #22 received at 664854@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@golden-gryphon.com>

To: 664854@bugs.debian.org, control@bugs.debian.org

Subject: [6780aa4] Fix for Bug#664854 committed to git

Date: Sun, 4 May 2014 10:49:47 -0700

tags 664854 +pending
thanks
Hi,

     The following change has been committed for this bug by
 Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@golden-gryphon.com> on Sun, 4 May 2014 10:49:16 -0700.
 The fix will be in the next upload. 
=========================================================================
[master]: Try get to a working state.

* Set the kernel-package version correctly in the new dh build.
* The new make is pickier about spacing. Update white spaces to work
  with the new make.  (Closes: #746950).
* brought back the armel configuration. This should allow building there
  again.  (Closes: #664854).

Signed-off-by: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@golden-gryphon.com>
=========================================================================

Message #29 received at 664854-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>

To: 664854-close@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Bug#664854: fixed in kernel-package 13.002

Date: Sun, 04 May 2014 18:03:47 +0000

Source: kernel-package
Source-Version: 13.002

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
kernel-package, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 664854@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> (supplier of updated kernel-package package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive
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Date: Sun, 04 May 2014 10:47:53 -0700
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Version: 13.002
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: high
Maintainer: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
Changed-By: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
Description: 
 kernel-package - utility for building Linux kernel related Debian packages
Closes: 664854 746950
Changes: 
 kernel-package (13.002) unstable; urgency=high
 .
   * Set the kernel-package version correctly in the new dh build.
   * The new make is pickier about spacing. Update white spaces to work
     with the new make.  (Closes: #746950).
   * brought back the armel configuration. This should allow building there
     again.  (Closes: #664854).
   * Bug fix: "make-kpkg fails with make 4.0", thanks to Arthur Marsh
   * Bug fix: "kernel-package no longer supports armel architecture",
     thanks to David Madore
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Message #38 received at 664854@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: David Madore <david+bugs@madore.org>

To: 664854@bugs.debian.org, control@bugs.debian.org

Subject: kernel-package: armel architecture still broken in version 13.008

Date: Tue, 13 May 2014 23:59:27 +0200

reopen 664854
thanks

Sorry for being slow at replying.  I tried versions 13.003 and 13.008
of kernel-package, and the armel architecture is still broken:

* in 13.003, the arches/armel.mk rule file was re-added, but
  architecture.mk does not include it, so it is inoperative;

* and in 13.008, it is included conditionally under a test
  ifeq ($(strip $(architecture)),arm)
  but itself starts with
  ifeq ($(strip $(architecture)),armel)
  so the two never match together.

Now I really don't know whether the proper value of $(architecture)
for armel should be "arm" or "armel", nor what $(DEB_HOST_ARCH) should
be, that's a Debian policy decision that's way above my head; but at
any rate, a consistent choice should be made, and it should be
accessible.

-- 
     David A. Madore
   ( http://www.madore.org/~david/ )

Message #47 received at 664854@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@ieee.org>

To: 664854@bugs.debian.org, control@bugs.debian.org

Cc: David Madore <david+bugs@madore.org>

Subject: kernel-package: armel architecture still broken in version 13.008

Date: Wed, 14 May 2014 09:53:17 -0700

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tags 664854 + moreinfo
severity 664854 normal
thanks

Hi,

        Based on another bug report about a Sheeevaplug (which is an
 armel machine), the reported architecture was arm. What exactly is th
 error you get? Could you attach a build log with the failure? What
 does dpkg-architecture show on your armel box?

        manoj

DEB_HOST_ARCH=armel
DEB_HOST_ARCH_BITS=32
DEB_HOST_ARCH_CPU=arm
DEB_HOST_ARCH_ENDIAN=little
DEB_HOST_ARCH_OS=linux
DEB_HOST_GNU_CPU=arm
DEB_HOST_GNU_SYSTEM=linux-gnueabi
DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE=arm-linux-gnueabi
DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH=arm-linux-gnueabi


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Message #56 received at 664854@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@golden-gryphon.com>

To: 664854@bugs.debian.org, control@bugs.debian.org

Subject: [58f65c4] Fix for Bug#664854 committed to git

Date: Wed, 14 May 2014 10:59:01 -0700

tags 664854 +pending
thanks
Hi,

     The following change has been committed for this bug by
 Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@golden-gryphon.com> on Wed, 14 May 2014 10:57:44 -0700.
 The fix will be in the next upload. 
=========================================================================
[master]: various bug fixes

* No longer have generated kernel images depend on ksymoops, a long
  defunct package, since it is useless with kernels >= 2.6.
  (Closes: #748066).
* When the user asks for the arch name to be part of the kernel image
  package version string, only image and debig packages included the
  arch in the name. This commit makes the name of the header package
  also be consistent with the image names. At this point, the source and
  document/manual package names remain generic, since arch specific
  differences should not exist in those packages. (Closes: #568576).
* the image packages generated by kernel-package also build in the
  modules requested in the configuration file, so there is no
  linux-moules-* package. However, in case there are dependencies on
  that package name, the image package now also claims to provide the
  modules package. (Closes: #599815).
* In order to ease the life of people cross compiling, or building for a
  subarch, do not call dpkg-gencontrol with the host archtecture, but
  rather, with the architecture we built the kernel image for.
  (Closes: #563300).
* Hopped on to an armel machine to test make-kpkg. The CPU is reported
  as arm by dpkg-architecture, so the top level logic in kernel-package
  was correct.Unfortunately, the armel specific file wassumed the CPU
  was armel, so nothing got included.  Corrected that inner check in
  this release.  (Closes: #664854).

Signed-off-by: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@golden-gryphon.com>
=========================================================================

Message #63 received at 664854-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>

To: 664854-close@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Bug#664854: fixed in kernel-package 13.010

Date: Wed, 14 May 2014 18:19:23 +0000

Source: kernel-package
Source-Version: 13.010

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
kernel-package, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 664854@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> (supplier of updated kernel-package package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive
administrators by mailing ftpmaster@ftp-master.debian.org)


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Date: Wed, 14 May 2014 10:54:44 -0700
Source: kernel-package
Binary: kernel-package kernel-common
Architecture: source all
Version: 13.010
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
Changed-By: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
Description: 
 kernel-common - common elements for generated kernel packages
 kernel-package - utility for building Linux kernel related Debian packages
Closes: 563300 568576 599815 664854 748066
Changes: 
 kernel-package (13.010) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   * No longer have generated kernel images depend on ksymoops, a long
     defunct package, since it is useless with kernels >= 2.6.
     (Closes: #748066).
   * When the user asks for the arch name to be part of the kernel image
     package version string, only image and debig packages included the
     arch in the name. This commit makes the name of the header package
     also be consistent with the image names. At this point, the source and
     document/manual package names remain generic, since arch specific
     differences should not exist in those packages. (Closes: #568576).
   * the image packages generated by kernel-package also build in the
     modules requested in the configuration file, so there is no
     linux-moules-* package. However, in case there are dependencies on
     that package name, the image package now also claims to provide the
     modules package. (Closes: #599815).
   * In order to ease the life of people cross compiling, or building for a
     subarch, do not call dpkg-gencontrol with the host archtecture, but
     rather, with the architecture we built the kernel image for.
     (Closes: #563300).
   * Hopped on to an armel machine to test make-kpkg. The CPU is reported
     as arm by dpkg-architecture, so the top level logic in kernel-package
     was correct.Unfortunately, the armel specific file wassumed the CPU
     was armel, so nothing got included.  Corrected that inner check in
     this release.  (Closes: #664854).
   * Bug fix #748066: "generated linux-image packages suggest ksymoops",
     thanks to Sven Joachim
   * Bug fix #568576: "builds non-matching kernel and headers packages",
     thanks to Michal Suchanek <hramrach@centrum.cz>
   * Bug fix #599815: "make-kpkg doesn't set correctly 'Provides: '
     field", thanks to Gérald Colangelo
   * Bug fix #563300: "on cross compile the 'control' file contains host
     architecture", thanks to Michael Tuschik
   * Bug fix #664854: "kernel-package no longer supports armel
     architecture", thanks to David Madore
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