Guido Günther <[email protected]> writes:
> On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 11:33:56AM -0700, Svend Sorensen wrote:
> [..snip..]
>> There is no way to specify the architecture when running "git-pbuilder
>> create". If additional arguments were passed to cowbuilder, one could
>> run "git-pbuilder create --architecture i386" to create an i386 image
>> on an amd64 system. The attached patch allows this.
I included the patch to support extra arguments, since I think that's a
good idea regardless.
> While I do think this make sense I do wonder if we wouldn't have to
> encode the architecture in the name of the basepath in your example.
> Otherwise it wouldn't be possible to have a sid baseimage for amd64 and
> i386 on the same machine.
> I see two solutions here: making it possible to override $BASE too or to
> add a --arch option to git-pbuilder that adds the architecture to $BASE.
--arch as an option will have trouble for the same reason that --dist as
an option doesn't always work: you may not easily be able to get options
passed down to the builder script. I've therefore instead added another
environment variable, ARCH, which works the same way as DIST. If ARCH is
set, it passes the --architecture flag along to cowbuilder, and it also
changes the base path to be base-<dist>-<arch>.cow.
That's now in git-pbuilder 1.16, which was just released at:
http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/software/scripts/
Thank you very much for the feedback and additional ideas!
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