Build dhcpcd on i386

Benjamin Drung bdrung at ubuntu.com
Sat Jul 29 09:52:53 UTC 2023


On Sat, 2023-07-29 at 10:41 +0100, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote:
> 
> 
> On Sat, 29 Jul 2023, 10:29 Benjamin Drung, <bdrung at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > 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.

There were. initramfs-tools 0.142ubuntu5 did not migrate because it
added a dependency on isc-dhcp-client which was not available on i386. I
only vaguely remember it, but it might have been a seed.

-- 
Benjamin Drung
Debian & Ubuntu Developer



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