ports 386 flavour

Tim Gardner tim.gardner at canonical.com
Mon Jun 22 16:55:23 UTC 2009


Andy Whitcroft wrote:
> We seem to have lost the i386 '386' flavour in the recent merge of the
> ports kernel into the main distro kernel.  There seems to be neither a
> flavour nor a kernel configuration for it.
> 
> With the changes I did to fix the ports FTBFS created a new configuration
> hieracy for the ports, but its not at all clear how one would inject the
> 386 kernel into that as we determine which hiearachy to use based on the
> build architecture.
> 
> At a minimum we need to get the flavour resurected.  We will also need
> to decide how we handle the configs.
> 
> -apw
> 

It has occurred to me that the reason Luke may have not included the 386
config is because Karmic userspace may not support anything less then
i586. As far as I know, that decision regarding the rebuild of the
archive is still pending.

rtg
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Tim Gardner tim.gardner at canonical.com




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