Raspi-firmware being incorrectly installed during update
There appears to be a problem with the raspi-firmware package being
incorrectly installed on non-Pi systems, causing a problem (because
for most platforms it does not exist)
In the post below, "it" generally refers to raspi-firmware.
Rather than paraphrase the issue as described to me, I will paste it verbatim:
"The Debian Live docs say you will get the OS version that is
installed on your PC. Our 2.9.2 ISO was built on Debian 12.4 and I
also added a command to suppress its installation just in case. But
when the build scripts ran I could see it was attempting to install
it. At the time, I installed LinuxCNC on a test machine which has not
done anything since. I confirmed Debian 12.4 was installed and also
confirmed raspi-firmware was not installed at the time.
The last few days some security updates must have been released and
there were reports of errors when doing an apt upgrade on the forum. I
confirmed this behaviour (the next RT kernel version 6.1.0-17 install
failed right at the end)
Tonight I checked, and sure enough raspberry-firmware was installed. I
can only assume the upgrade installed it. Based on a post by Tommy, I
removed it as follows:
sudo apt update
sudo dpkg -P raspi-firmware sudo apt dist-upgrade
This resolved the error and after a reboot. the latest 6.1.0-17 RT
kernel was installed
I have updated my Google Drive instructions about this and also put
some notes about using Debian's distro and Andy's script. Please
review and advise your suggestions. I think it's now ready for the
content to be transferred to the 2.9.2 Docs.
Could you guys do a bit of testing on this installer issue? I think we
should report the bug to the debian-live team, It could be because we
are using the RT kernel do you think? Debian use the Debian-Live
installer to build their distros so it is very weird we have this
issue. I have pored over our installer many times looking for anything
that might cause this. I am sure it isn't us!"
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atp
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