On Sat, Nov 24, 2007 at 10:59:32PM +0000, brian m. carlson wrote: > On Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 07:15:29AM +1100, Alex Samad wrote: >> On Sat, Nov 24, 2007 at 01:17:52AM +0100, Pierre Habouzit wrote: >>> and when you build a package in there, wrap the >>> debuild/dpkg-buildpackage/... call inside linux32. >> why do i need linux32, I have build my package and used schroot. all seems >> to be well. note I am not doing any compiling ! > > If you use schroot, it takes care of setting up the Linux personality for > you, just as linux32 does, so you don't need both. If your uname(2) call > returns i[3456]86, then your system will be treated as i386, and i386 > packages will be built. If it returns x86-64, then it will be treated as > amd64. Linux personality support allows modifying the uname(2) call, so > packages will be compiled and built properly.
I find it rather strange that you need a working environment to be able to build packages for that environment. Thing is I am only making meta packages but I am building it on a amd64 for a i386 environment. Thanks > > -- > brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US > +1 713 440 7475 | http://crustytoothpaste.ath.cx/~bmc | My opinion only > a typesetting engine: http://crustytoothpaste.ath.cx/~bmc/code/thwack > OpenPGP: RSA v4 4096b 88AC E9B2 9196 305B A994 7552 F1BA 225C 0223 B187
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