Re: [Tails-dev] Shipping a 686-pae kernel

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11/09/12 14:14, Ague Mill wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 02:52:53PM +0200, intrigeri wrote:
>> So, I just merged the feature/multikernel branch into experimental.
>
> Looks like `20-syslinux_detect_cpu` has an issue. In commit 0194501a7,
> syslinux was added as a system-wide dependency (for Vagrant) to build
> Tails.


This situation would be the same in any build system, not just Vagrant.

> This does not feel right. The `ifcpu64.c32` module should be copied from
> the same syslinux package than the one that is going to be used later
> on by live-build, not by the one installed in the building system.
>
> I really don't think this is a big issue. This COM32 module is not
> probably going to change much over time. But I'd rather not introduce
> the kind of subtle desync. that might happen using two different
> packages.


Agreed. Fixed in commit 14c168f.

Cheers!