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and subject line Re: Bug#510121: kernel-package: make-kpkg needs to take care
of /lib/firmware for multiple installed kernel versions
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--- Begin Message ---
Package: kernel-package
Version: 11.015
Severity: important
Building a kernel package with make-kpkg for kernels >=2.6.27 results in
including some files in the package that are put in /lib/firmware. For example:
(2.6.28 .deb contents)
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2008-10-12 15:45 ./lib/firmware/
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2008-10-12 15:45 ./lib/firmware/yamaha/
-rw-r--r-- root/root 12288 2008-10-12 15:45
./lib/firmware/yamaha/ds1_ctrl.fw
-rw-r--r-- root/root 128 2008-10-12 15:45 ./lib/firmware/yamaha/ds1_dsp.fw
-rw-r--r-- root/root 12288 2008-10-12 15:45
./lib/firmware/yamaha/ds1e_ctrl.fw
The next kernel (2.6.29) package will also have those files in it. So there
will be two .deb files with the same files in /lib/firmware. This makes it
impossible to install a new kernel and keep the old one installed in the
system. This actually happened with kernels 2.6.27 and 2.6.28.
Perhaps /lib/firmware files should be a different package
(linux-kernel-firmware-2.6.28) etc. Most probably there isn't any problem
having kernel 2.6.27 with firmware from 2.6.28 (etc... etc...). Also, the
kernel-firmware may be a non-free package (per debian policy ?).
I see that this bug is also mentioned as ubuntu bug #256983
(https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kernel-package/+bug/256983)
which includes a on-liner patch for installing the firmware in
/lib/firmware/<version>
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1,
'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.28-v2-v (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages kernel-package depends on:
ii binutils 2.18.1~cvs20080103-7 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii debianutils 2.30 Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii dpkg 1.14.23 Debian package management system
ii dpkg-dev 1.14.23 Debian package development tools
ii file 4.26-1 Determines file type using "magic"
ii gcc [c-compiler] 4:4.3.2-2 The GNU C compiler
ii gcc-4.1 [c-compiler 4.1.2-23 The GNU C compiler
ii gcc-4.2 [c-compiler 4.2.4-4 The GNU C compiler
ii gcc-4.3 [c-compiler 4.3.2-1 The GNU C compiler
ii gettext 0.17-4 GNU Internationalization utilities
ii make 3.81-5 The GNU version of the "make" util
ii module-init-tools 3.4-1 tools for managing Linux kernel mo
ii perl 5.10.0-18 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
ii po-debconf 1.0.15 manage translated Debconf template
ii util-linux 2.13.1.1-1 Miscellaneous system utilities
Versions of packages kernel-package recommends:
ii bzip2 1.0.5-1 high-quality block-sorting file co
ii libc6-dev [libc-dev] 2.7-16 GNU C Library: Development Librari
Versions of packages kernel-package suggests:
pn docbook-utils <none> (no description available)
ii e2fsprogs 1.41.3-1 ext2/ext3/ext4 file system utiliti
pn libdb3-dev <none> (no description available)
pn libncurses-dev <none> (no description available)
pn linux-initramfs-tool <none> (no description available)
pn linux-source | kernel-source <none> (no description available)
pn xmlto <none> (no description available)
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--- Begin Message ---
Hi,
kernel-package already does so.
,----[ kernel/ruleset/targets/image.mk ]
| $(restore_upstream_debianization)
| $(MAKE) $(EXTRAV_ARG) INSTALL_MOD_PATH=$(INSTALL_MOD_PATH) \
| INSTALL_FW_PATH=$(INSTALL_MOD_PATH)/lib/firmware/$(KERNELRELEASE) \
| $(CROSS_ARG) ARCH=$(KERNEL_ARCH) modules_install
| $(save_upstream_debianization)
`----
manoj
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