Re: Bug#331391: Re: ftpmaster: Please remove 2.6.8 kernel images

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 05:09:18PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 02:58:01PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> > I reviewed base-installer for use of kernel-image-2.6.* metapackages.
> > It's still used by amd64, arm, m68k, mips, and mipsel:
> 
> > joey@dragon:~/src/d-i/packages/base-installer/kernel>grep kernel-image *
> > alpha.sh:       echo "kernel-image-$version-$SMP"
> > amd64.sh:                       echo "kernel-image-$KERNEL_MAJOR-amd64-k8$SMP"
> > amd64.sh:                       echo "kernel-image-$KERNEL_MAJOR-em64t-p4$SMP"
> > amd64.sh:                       echo "kernel-image-$KERNEL_MAJOR-amd64-generic"
> > arm.sh:         echo "kernel-image-$KERNEL_VERSION-$1"
> > i386.sh:                echo "kernel-image-$KERNEL_VERSION-speakup"
> > i386.sh:                imgbase=kernel-image
> > m68k.sh:        echo "kernel-image-$version-$1"
> > mips.sh:        echo "kernel-image-$version-$1"
> > mipsel.sh:      echo "kernel-image-$version-$1"
> > powerpc.sh:             apus)   trykernel=kernel-image-$apusversion-apus ;;
> > powerpc.sh:                                     echo "kernel-image-$KERNEL_MAJOR-$1$SMP"
> > s390.sh:        echo "kernel-image-$KERNEL_ABI-s390"
> > sparc.sh:               imgbase=kernel-image
> 
> > i386, alpha, s390, sparc, powerpc only use it for 2.4 kernels.
> 
> Does this mean that these archs are now using linux-image-$foo for 2.6
> kernels, or that we've regressed to hard-coding kernel versions in places?

As for powerpc, those use linux-image-$foo indeed. I personally favour
dropping the per arch copy of this files which needs individual modification,
in favour of a simpler cpuinfo->flavour mapping and a single kernel-install
file, but joeyh doesn't seem to like that.

Friendly,

Sven Luther