Re: Ask Help
EXCELLENT
Thanks billion !
On 6/18/23, David Kalnischkies <david@kalnischkies.de> wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 18, 2023 at 07:46:10AM +0700, Budi wrote:
>> was simply said
>>
>> Big problem is os-prober failed on here condition, kinda:
>>
>> Amd cpu machine, many partitions of HDD most of which are installed
>> OSs, one is Artix, none is Debian (based)
>>
>> so os-prober run on Arch based badly failed, need to consult / bugreport
>>
>> thankfully there bugreport app. but this not core/MS repo (e.g AUR
>> repo), needs long painful installations, one (of most painful) is the
>> "apt" as it'll be DL extract, prepare build, compile...
>
> So, you are trying to port Debians 'reportbug' package to Arch to report
> from Arch a bug in os-prober (which Debian is considered upstream for) ?
>
>
> Debians bugtracker is email based, so if you follow the documentation
> (which recommends to use reportbug first, but with the assumption that
> you are using Debian…) you can easily format a mail yourself.
>
> You can also create a Debian chroot (or a virtual machine or whatever
> you prefer really) within Arch and report from there. You should provide
> as much details about your (real) machine though as 'reportbug' will
> collect all sorts of information but those will be mostly useless as
> they will be talking about a virtual environment…
>
> If you managed to port 'reportbug' onto Arch your situation would be
> similar as reportbug depends e.g. on apt to ask it about which packages
> are installed (with it) and so on. That report would be empty, as Arch
> uses a different package manager (pacman?) … so, yeah, if you would
> seriously port reportbug to Arch, you would need it to port it from apt
> to pacman as well…
>
>
> Best might be to start a Debian Live CD and run os-prober (and
> reportbug) from there as you then clearly have a Debian system with
> a known an supported setup, but (presumably) a bug in os-prober
> you can ask to get fixed in Debian which would flow down to Arch
> eventually.
>
>
> I am not sure how Arch is usually doing things, but my general
> recommendation would be to talk to the maintainer of the os-prober
> package in Arch. They should know if/how/what upstream needs and
> how to proceed.
>
>
> Best regards
>
> David Kalnischkies
>
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