Re: [PATCH] Allow use of foreign linux-headers packages with a native compiler

2013-11-11 Thread Bastian Blank
On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 02:56:33AM +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > I also want gencontrol.py to check that linux-compiler template > specifies the same compiler as the config. That's why I don't want to make it related to the kernel version but to the compiler version. Bastian -- First study the

Re: [PATCH] Allow use of foreign linux-headers packages with a native compiler

2013-11-10 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, 2013-11-11 at 01:38 +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Sun, 2013-10-27 at 13:27 +0100, Bastian Blank wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 10:11:24PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: [...] > > > +if compiler_multilib: > > > +# We cannot directly depend on all valid compile

Re: [PATCH] Allow use of foreign linux-headers packages with a native compiler

2013-11-10 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sun, 2013-10-27 at 13:27 +0100, Bastian Blank wrote: > On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 10:11:24PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > The meta-packages do not exist and cross-architecture dependencies are > > not supported by dak or britney. So for now, introduce our own > > meta-packages where we need the

Re: [PATCH] Allow use of foreign linux-headers packages with a native compiler

2013-10-27 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 01:27:01PM +0100, Bastian Blank wrote: > I would do it this way: > - Add linux-compiler-@version@-x86/linux-compiler-@version@-s390 to > linux-tools:template/config.extra.in (not sure if support is currently > in there or if it needs to be copied from linux-latest) and d

Re: [PATCH] Allow use of foreign linux-headers packages with a native compiler

2013-10-27 Thread Bastian Blank
On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 10:11:24PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > The meta-packages do not exist and cross-architecture dependencies are > not supported by dak or britney. So for now, introduce our own > meta-packages where we need them. Okay as a workaround, but your solution is a bit overenginee

[PATCH] Allow use of foreign linux-headers packages with a native compiler

2013-10-25 Thread Ben Hutchings
Currently it is possible and useful to install some foreign linux-image packages, specifically linux-image--amd64:amd64 on i386 and linux-image--s390x:s390x on s390. However it is not practical to install a foreign linux-headers package because it depends a compiler package which is correctly neit