[elbe-devel] elbe pbuilder and qemu-arm

[Manuel Traut]

Hi,

using the pbuilder feature of elbe-1.9.x on arm[el|hf] was only possible if the
initvm Makefile was edited to use SMP=1. The root cause of the problem is the
cross-thread signal handling code of qemu-user. This problem seems to be solved
in the qemu project now. We added qemu-2.7.0-rc2 from debian experimental to the
jessie and sid branch of the elbe-common repository. So the new qemu version will
be installed in 'elbe-testing' initvms.

Take care, only elbe 1.9.7 (that was released today) or newer uses the elbe shipped
version of qemu in pbuilder.

If you are interested in the pbuilder function of elbe, John wrote a nice Tutorial:
https://github.com/Linutronix/elbe/wiki/Tutorial:-rootfs-with-custom-debian-packages

Have fun!

   Manuel