Build dhcpcd on i386

[Benjamin Drung]

On Sat, 2023-07-29 at 11:20 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 29, 2023 at 10:41:21AM +0100, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote:
> > On Sat, 29 Jul 2023, 10:29 Benjamin Drung, <bdrung at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> 
> > > can you enable building dhcpcd on i386? initramfs-tools will switch to
> > > use dhcpd-base from the dhcpcd source package (LP: #2024164) and
> > > initramfs-tools will depend on dhcpcd-base then.
> 
> > Which is unused and not needed on i386. i386 is a non-boot applications and
> > library only architecture. If there are any reverse build depends on
> > initramfs-tools (there shouldn't) and we can fix them up.
> 
> isc-dhcp is not built on i386.  initramfs-tools is, because:
> 
> initramfs-tools                       | initramfs-tools                    | live-build                                  | Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss at lists.ubuntu.com>      |            9080 |              68
> 
>   https://ubuntu-archive-team.ubuntu.com/germinate-output/i386.mantic/all
> 
> I think that patching live-build to not require initramfs-tools is
> uninteresting and that we should just build dhcpcd on i386.
> 
> However, I prefer that the changes requiring such seeding ACTUALLY be in the
> archive before requests are made.  So I'm not whitelisting it before
> initramfs-tools is uploaded.

initramfs-tools >= 0.142ubuntu9 in mantic-proposed is now depending on
dhcpcd-base and dhcpd-base got promoted to main.

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Benjamin Drung
Debian & Ubuntu Developer