Bug#250225: grub: FTBFS: missing amd64 support.

[Robert Millan]

severity 250225 wishlist
tags 250225 wontfix
thanks

Please don't file important bugs for FTBFS on an arch that is not officialy
supported.

On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 02:14:30PM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> Package: grub
> Version: 0.94+cvs20040511-1
> Severity: important
> 
> grub builds but the packaging fails on amd64.  It's missing the
> amd64 in the arch list in the control file.

Uhm.. yes, but dpkg is using "x86-64" currently. I'll put this on hold untill
you get a consensus with the dpkg maintainers on which archname to use.

> And in the rules file it says this:
>         cp $(CURDIR)/debian/grub/usr/lib/grub/i386-*/* \
>                 $(CURDIR)/docs/menu.lst \
>                 $(CURDIR)/debian/tmp/boot/grub
> 
> Which does not work because it should be x86_64-* in our case.

Does it really work with 64bit bootcode? Goswin told me it won't.

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Robert Millan

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