On 3/10/26 2:31 PM, Frank Burkhardt wrote:
Hi,
Am Tue, Mar 10, 2026 at 10:09:28AM -0600 schrieb Khalid Aziz:
On 12/19/25 2:59 AM, Frank wrote:
Source: kexec-tools
Version: 1:2.0.29-2
Severity: normal
Tags: d-i
X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected], [email protected],
[email protected]
User: [email protected]
Usertags: amd64
User: [email protected]
Usertags: amd64
Dear Maintainer,
The kexec binary in the kexec-tools-udeb udeb package
depends on libxenctrl.so.4.20 which is not available in the
Debian installer. The binary should be compiled
without xen support for the udeb.
Do we need kexec-tools package for debian installer? I am not seeing the
installer
use kexec during installation. If installer does not use kexec, should we just
not build kexec-toools-udeb?
kexec is quite handy when installing servers during short maintenance
windows. I'm using it in a late script to directly start the target
system. Adding a simple command (I have a early script download a pre-compiled
kexec) saves me up to 5 minutes per installation by skipping POST.
Cheers,
Frank
Good to know you have a use case. Dependency on libxen-dev was added to resolve
<https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1023270>. I will look
into what I can do for udeb.
Thanks,
Khalid
