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Re: glitch with e2fsprogs, alpha, e2writeboot



> I'm noticing that for alpha only, the boot-floppies wants to also
> include sbin/e2writeboot in the rootdisk.  But that isn't provided by
> e2fsprogs-bf.

It's provided by the 'aboot' package.  Here's the summary from the manpage:

       e2writeboot  -  Write  secondary  SRM  bootloader  to ext2
       filesystem.

> I would file a bug but I'm not sure if it's a boot-floppies/alpha bug
> that it wants that at all, or an e2fsprogs-bf bug.
>
> Ideas?

Neither :-)  The build deps should include aboot, though, if they don't
already.

C



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