On 15/09/2014 22:28, Barak A. Pearlmutter wrote: > The package "ikarus", another programming language implementation, > also requires SSE2 support. > There is a check in the preinst script which aborts installation if > sse2 is unavailable. > > case "$1" in > install|upgrade) > if egrep -q '^flags[[:space:]]*:.*\bsse2\b' /proc/cpuinfo; then > # echo CPU instruction set extension sse2 confirmed > true > else > echo "error: CPU flag sse2 not found, aborting installation" > exit 1 > fi > ;;
If this hack is really here, a bug should be filled. It is really a pain when something breaks when installing (or upgrading) a bunch of packages. This check should be moved at runtime. At install time, display a debconf notice if you really want to, but do not abruptly stop the installation without a really good reason (even when you try to remove the running kernel, perhaps leading to un unbootable system, you have the choice to abort or not) Regards, Vincent > > Cheers, > > --Barak. > > -- Vincent Danjean GPG key ID 0xD17897FA vdanj...@debian.org GPG key fingerprint: 621E 3509 654D D77C 43F5 CA4A F6AE F2AF D178 97FA Unofficial pkgs: http://moais.imag.fr/membres/vincent.danjean/deb.html APT repo: deb http://people.debian.org/~vdanjean/debian unstable main -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/5417ddb1.1060...@free.fr