On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 01:04:27AM +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 07:44:20PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > > I've dropped powerpc entirely from beta3. Of the images we produced, the > > netinst CD images do not work for any powerpc subarch, because they > > don't have usable kernels on them. Also, the kernel images have a broken > > postinst that does not set up the /vmlinux symlink for yaboot. And > > yaboot-installer hardcoded the path[1] to archdetect and gets it wrong, so > > that's also broken. For details, talk to Colin Watson. > > yaboot-installer is #238208, trivial fix therein. > > The kernel images have a postinst that looks like this: > > # Only change the symlinks if we are not being upgraded > # (strangely broken on powerpc, i wonder why, let's work around it so d-i is not > broken. > if ((! defined $ARGV[1] || ! $ARGV[1] || $ARGV[1] =~ m/<unknown>/og) && $arch !~ > m/powerpc/) { > image_magic($kimage, $image_dest); > } > else { > print STDERR "Not updating image symbolic links since we are being updated > ($ARGV[1])\n"; > }
Ok, it was my fault then. > I can't work out from the kernel-patch-2.4.22-powerpc changelog what was > "strangely broken on powerpc", but whatever it was the workaround has > broken newworld systems that use yaboot and expect that symlink. Sven, > do you have details of the cause of this change? Not really. I did change this, because without that, the package would refuse to install. I don't remember the details, but it was a pain to work around it. The main reason being that kernel-package is severly broken. > > Rather than say that beta3 supports only netboot and businesscard > > installs for prep and chrp, I've dropped the whole thing. If the powerpc > > people would like to release in a week, I suggest you get your act > > together and begin testing full installs on all powerpc subarches. > > I'm sorry for not getting into newpmac testing until late in the game. > Unless I can figure out how to do something USB-stick-ish, I guess I'll > invest in a stock of blank CDs and keep going. a CD-RW will do wonders here :) Also, i had the impression that since a month or more, i was the only one really doing tests, so ... > > (Also, the hurried yaboot-installer release made yesterday to fix *other* > > serious problems on powerpc was never actually committed to the CVS > > tree.) > > Yes it was, just on a branch (debian_version_0_0_13_fixes). On the > trunk, libdebian-installer claims to have a fix for the root cause of > that problem. Mmm, i have had a report from a user yesterday, which told me that base-installer seems broken again, since he gets the -apus kernel installed on his pegasos. Strange since i don't had this issue yesterday morning. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]