From: "'Jan Kiszka' via isar-users" <isar-users@googlegroups.com>
To: Felix Moessbauer <felix.moessbauer@siemens.com>,
isar-users@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/5] kernel: make source package architecture specific
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2026 08:23:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <34136d7c-dbda-4c3e-8dfd-faca4d42d273@siemens.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260817113420.750731-4-felix.moessbauer@siemens.com>
On 17.08.26 13:34, Felix Moessbauer wrote:
> Currently we mark our kernel source packages as Arch=any all, despite
> the content of the package is architecture specific. Here, we make the
You are still stating something imprecise here, and that should be
fixed: The package is not only architecture specific. It is depending an
a number of variables and files that do have arch dependencies but can
also have more. Please clarify this so that people don't get confused.
> package architecture specific by avoiding any Arch=any identifier in the
> control file. This results in having Architecture: ${DISTRO_ARCH} all in
> the generated .dsc file. The same applies to the custom kernel modules.
>
> A special case is the "linux-kbuild-${KERNEL_NAME_PROVIDED}-
> ${DISTRO_ARCH}-cross" package, which is specific to the BUILD_ARCH, as
> it contains host tooling binaries for the host, which are derived from
> the target specific kernel.
>
> Ensuring that we do not generate multiple kernel packages with different
> content but the same name (for multiple architectures) will be done in
> later commits.
...or different machine configs or even image variants (e.g. debug vs.
production config). It is risky to suggest that just making a kernel
arch-specific would be enough for all scenarios.
>
> Signed-off-by: Felix Moessbauer <felix.moessbauer@siemens.com>
> ---
> meta/classes-recipe/linux-kernel.bbclass | 3 ++-
> .../linux-module/files/debian/control.tmpl | 2 +-
> meta/recipes-kernel/linux/files/debian/control.tmpl | 10 +++++-----
> 3 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/meta/classes-recipe/linux-kernel.bbclass b/meta/classes-recipe/linux-kernel.bbclass
> index ac587b17..74a49aa8 100644
> --- a/meta/classes-recipe/linux-kernel.bbclass
> +++ b/meta/classes-recipe/linux-kernel.bbclass
> @@ -78,6 +78,7 @@ TEMPLATE_FILES += " \
>
> TEMPLATE_VARS += " \
> BPN \
> + BUILD_ARCH \
> KBUILD_DEPENDS \
> KERNEL_ARCH \
> KERNEL_DEBIAN_DEPENDS \
> @@ -274,7 +275,7 @@ def get_additional_build_profiles(d):
> profiles += ' pkg.{}.libcdev-arch-all'.format(d.getVar('BPN'))
> return profiles
>
> -KERNEL_LIBC_DEV_ARCH = "${@ bb.utils.contains('DEB_BUILD_PROFILES', 'pkg.{}.libcdev-arch-all'.format(d.getVar('BPN')), 'all\nMulti-Arch: foreign', 'any', d) }"
> +KERNEL_LIBC_DEV_ARCH = "${@ bb.utils.contains('DEB_BUILD_PROFILES', 'pkg.{}.libcdev-arch-all'.format(d.getVar('BPN')), 'all\nMulti-Arch: foreign', d.getVar('DISTRO_ARCH'), d) }"
> DEB_BUILD_PROFILES += "${@get_additional_build_profiles(d)}"
>
> do_prepare_build[cleandirs] += "${S}/debian"
> diff --git a/meta/recipes-kernel/linux-module/files/debian/control.tmpl b/meta/recipes-kernel/linux-module/files/debian/control.tmpl
> index d8f4aded..3c222979 100644
> --- a/meta/recipes-kernel/linux-module/files/debian/control.tmpl
> +++ b/meta/recipes-kernel/linux-module/files/debian/control.tmpl
> @@ -7,6 +7,6 @@ Maintainer: ${MAINTAINER}
> Rules-Requires-Root: no
>
> Package: ${PN}
> -Architecture: any
> +Architecture: ${DISTRO_ARCH}
> Depends: ${KERNEL_IMAGE_PKG}, kmod
> Description: ${DESCRIPTION}
> diff --git a/meta/recipes-kernel/linux/files/debian/control.tmpl b/meta/recipes-kernel/linux/files/debian/control.tmpl
> index 77c4048b..f89a1f56 100644
> --- a/meta/recipes-kernel/linux/files/debian/control.tmpl
> +++ b/meta/recipes-kernel/linux/files/debian/control.tmpl
> @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ Rules-Requires-Root: no
>
> Package: linux-image-${KERNEL_NAME_PROVIDED}
> Build-Profiles: <pkg.${BPN}.kernel>
> -Architecture: any
> +Architecture: ${DISTRO_ARCH}
> Depends: ${KERNEL_DEBIAN_DEPENDS}
> Description: ${KERNEL_NAME_PROVIDED} Linux kernel, version @KR@
> This package contains the Linux kernel, modules and corresponding other
> @@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ Description: ${KERNEL_NAME_PROVIDED} Linux kernel, version @KR@
>
> Package: linux-headers-${KERNEL_NAME_PROVIDED}
> Build-Profiles: <pkg.${BPN}.kernel>
> -Architecture: any
> +Architecture: ${DISTRO_ARCH}
Interestingly, Debian does not seem to set an architecture for
linux-headers*. What is the value then, all or any?
> Depends: ${KERNEL_HEADERS_DEBIAN_DEPENDS}, ${perl:Depends}, ${shlibs:Depends}
> Description: ${KERNEL_NAME_PROVIDED} Linux kernel headers for @KR@
> This package provides kernel header files for @KR@ on ${DISTRO_ARCH}
> @@ -47,14 +47,14 @@ Description: Linux Kernel Headers for development (for cross-compiling)
> Package: linux-image-${KERNEL_NAME_PROVIDED}-dbg
> Build-Profiles: <pkg.${BPN}.kernel>
> Section: debug
> -Architecture: any
> +Architecture: ${DISTRO_ARCH}
> Description: Linux kernel debugging symbols for @KR@
> This package will come in handy if you need to debug the kernel. It provides
> all the necessary debug symbols for the kernel and its modules.
>
> Package: linux-kbuild-${KERNEL_NAME_PROVIDED}
> Build-Profiles: <pkg.${BPN}.kbuild !pkg.${BPN}.cross>
> -Architecture: any
> +Architecture: ${DISTRO_ARCH}
> Depends: ${perl:Depends}, ${shlibs:Depends}
> Description: ${KERNEL_NAME_PROVIDED} Linux kbuild scripts and tools for @KR@
> This package provides kernel kbuild scripts and tools for @KR@
> @@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ Description: ${KERNEL_NAME_PROVIDED} Linux kbuild scripts and tools for @KR@
>
> Package: linux-kbuild-${KERNEL_NAME_PROVIDED}-${DISTRO_ARCH}-cross
> Build-Profiles: <pkg.${BPN}.kbuild pkg.${BPN}.cross>
> -Architecture: any
> +Architecture: ${BUILD_ARCH}
> Multi-Arch: foreign
> Depends: ${perl:Depends}, ${shlibs:Depends}
> Conflicts: linux-kbuild-${KERNEL_NAME_PROVIDED}
And for linux-kbuild, it uses the architecture "linux-any" - what's that?
Jan
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Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-08-17 11:34 [PATCH v2 0/5] Fix single-name single-content rule for kernel packages 'Felix Moessbauer' via isar-users
2026-08-17 11:34 ` [PATCH v2 1/5] testsuite: make test_libc_dev_deploy KERNEL_NAME agnostic 'Felix Moessbauer' via isar-users
2026-08-17 11:34 ` [PATCH v2 2/5] kernel: bind x86_64_defconfig to amd64 architecture instead of machine 'Felix Moessbauer' via isar-users
2026-08-18 6:27 ` 'Jan Kiszka' via isar-users
2026-08-17 11:34 ` [PATCH v2 3/5] kernel: make source package architecture specific 'Felix Moessbauer' via isar-users
2026-08-18 6:23 ` 'Jan Kiszka' via isar-users [this message]
2026-08-20 7:45 ` 'MOESSBAUER, Felix' via isar-users
2026-08-20 8:13 ` 'Jan Kiszka' via isar-users
2026-08-20 8:29 ` 'MOESSBAUER, Felix' via isar-users
2026-08-17 11:34 ` [PATCH v2 4/5] kernel: move common parts of linux-mainline to inc 'Felix Moessbauer' via isar-users
2026-08-17 11:34 ` [PATCH v2 5/5] kernel: use architecture specific names for kernels 'Felix Moessbauer' via isar-users
2026-08-18 6:26 ` 'Jan Kiszka' via isar-users
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