* dann frazier <1918...@bugs.launchpad.net> [2021-03-18 12:11]: > On Thu, Mar 18, 2021 at 10:25 AM Ryan Harper <1918...@bugs.launchpad.net> > wrote: > > > > * dann frazier <1918...@bugs.launchpad.net> [2021-03-17 20:30]: > > > On Tue, Mar 16, 2021 at 10:05 AM Ryan Harper <1918...@bugs.launchpad.net> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > Hi Dan, > > > > > > > > > > 1) flash-kernel could get installed post-divert. In that case, > > > flash-kernel's own postinst will cause it to run and then fail. This > > > happens today if you start with a cloud image w/o flash-kernel > > > pre-baked because Ubuntu's kernel recommends flash-kernel, causing it > > > to be installed along with the kernel. Official cloud images happen to > > > > Hrm, so if we take a squashfs rootfs (with no flash-kernel present) > > chroot into it and install the linux-image-generic package pulling in > > flash-kernel this fails due to postinst of flash-kernel expecting > > initramfs to already be generated? This doesn't seem like a curtin bug. > > If done so in a chroot that exposes the kernel interfaces (/proc & > /sys) that claim to be hardware that requires the initramfs to be > post-processed, yes.
Maybe I'm missing something but if I install linux-image-generic it populates /boot with vmlinuz-$version (and a few more things) and /lib/modules/$version and the kernels postinst will invoke update-initramfs. The /boot/initrd.img-$version is *generated* at that time during the kernel's postinstall Now, in the arm case IIUC, the kernel package has a dep on flash-kernel being present as it's "needed" to generate the initramfs ... so how can flash-kernel's postinst *fail* if it is the tool that's generating said initramfs file? > > In summary curtin will need: > > > > move ephemeral deps.py flash-kernel to arch-packages in > > install-missing-packages with the same logic guarding when to add the > > dep. > > > > It's not clear to me why curtin should work around the packaging bugs > > around flash-kernel and I would suggest that flash-kernel be kept in the > > cloud images until the packging deps/bugs around it are fixed. > > I don't think it should - we should SRU Date's f-k change and the > kernel Recommends change. Are there other packaging issues you've > identified? I don't think possibly something flash-kernel related to the above discussion but that may just be my own misinformation. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1918427 Title: curtin: install flash-kernel in arm64 UEFI unexpected To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/cloud-images/+bug/1918427/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
