| Summary: | Catalyst source_subpath does not change upon changing subarch | ||
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| Product: | Gentoo Infrastructure | Reporter: | Pieter Van den Abeele (RETIRED) <pvdabeel> |
| Component: | Git | Assignee: | John Davis (zhen) (RETIRED) <zhen> |
| Status: | RESOLVED INVALID | ||
| Severity: | normal | ||
| Priority: | High | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | All | ||
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| Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- | |
Same side effect for GRP: G4 GRP would be built against a generic stage3 instead of a G4 stage3. Catalyst users need to overwrite the source_subpath to prevent that from happening this is the intended behaviour. I don't see a problem with having a different spec file for each subarch. |
This feature was introduced to make sure that for instance stage2-g4 is build from a stage1-ppc and not a stage1-g4. But this also means stage3-g4 will start from a stage2-ppc. Unless a different stage3 spec is written for each subarch. This can be solved easily by introducing a variable notion to the catalyst spec format: source_subpath for a stage3 would be profile-bla-bla/stage2-${subarch}-bla instead of hardcoded. I think a lot of architectures didn't realise this and have build their optimized stage3 from an unoptimized stage2. An easy way to circumvent this would be to add optimized stage1's.