Bug#655437: installation-reports: kernel image selection is confusing

[Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com>]

* Walter Landry <wlandry@caltech.edu> [2012-01-10 11:49]:
> When installing on my X220 Tablet, at one point it asks me to choose
> which kernel I want to use.  The choices were something like
> "linux-image-amd64" and "linux-image-3.1.0-amd64".  There is no
> information for why you would want to choose one or the other.  In
> fact, they both end up installing the same kernel, so it seems it
> would be best if this question could be avoided entirely.

I just ran into this bug as well.  I got the following choices:

  │              linux-image-2.6-iop32x        │
  │              linux-image-3.2.0-2-iop32x    │
  │              linux-image-iop32x            │
  │              none                          │

syslog showed this:

Mar 29 15:35:39 base-installer: info: Found kernels 'linux-image-2.6-iop32x,linux-image-3.2.0-2-iop32x,linux-image-iop32x'
Mar 29 15:35:39 base-installer: info: arch_kernel candidates: linux-image-3.2-iop32x
Mar 29 15:35:39 base-installer: info: arch_kernel: linux-image-3.2-iop32x (absent)

The problem is that the kernel rules in base-installer try to install
linux-image-$KERNEL_MAJOR-$1

However, with the 3.2, series, linux-latest doesn't generate a
linux-image-3.x-foo package.  Only linux-image-foo and (for backwards
compatibility) linux-image-2.6-foo are created.

I therefore suggest to change all linux-image-$KERNEL_MAJOR-$1 to
linux-image-$1 in order to get automatic kernel selection working
again.

Colin, can you ack this change?
-- 
Martin Michlmayr
http://www.cyrius.com/