On Wed, Mar 17, 2021 at 9:10 PM Date Huang <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > In my POC patch, it is because we need to divert flash-kernel before
> > it is installed, *just in case* it gets installed as a dependency of
> > some other package (in our case it happened due to a kernel Recommends
> > relationship). We therefore can't use `which` to look up the path...
> > unless we continue to always install f-k in the ephemeral for the sole
> > purpose of looking up its path... but that seems to making assumptions
> > as well - i.e. that the ephemeral OS has the same paths as the target
> > OS.
>
> Hi Dann
> Maybe we can test my patch in #24

Date,
  I'm happy to regression test a candidate patch on the xgene/u-boot
and non-xgene/uefi platforms we have once Ryan or some other curtin
maintainer is OK with the approach.

> Or we can try to install_kernel with --no-recommends to avoid installing 
> flash-kernel
> and move install_missing_packages after install_kernel and 
> enable_update_initramfs?

I think the kernel recommending flash-kernel if GRUB is already
installed is just a bug which is now fixed in hirsute:
  
https://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/ubuntu-hirsute.git/commit/?id=95325fff0a339a2365a12417a39234e143cc284e

 -dann

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