Re: What happened to "u-boot" package for Debian testing distribution on Cubox-i
On Thu, Feb 23, 2023, at 8:02 PM, Vagrant Cascadian wrote:
> On 2023-02-23, Rick Thomas wrote:
>> I just noticed that there are no versions of the package "u-boot" available on my SolidRun CuBox-i.
>> However there is a version of "u-boot-imx" available which contains the actual binary
>> code for this machine.
>> Interestingly, I have other arm-based boxes and none of them have this problem.
>
> u-boot (2023.01~rc4+dfsg-2) unstable; urgency=medium
> ...
> * debian/control: Drop u-boot meta-package for armhf and mips.
> ...
> -- Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant@debian.org> Thu, 05 Jan 2023 19:38:24 -0800
>
> I had meant to deprecate it back in ... maybe 2016 or 2018 and finally
> remembered to do it this release cycle!
>
> The actual binaries you are using come from u-boot-imx since u-boot
> 2014.x versions...
>
>
> live well,
> vagrant
Ahhh... thanks! That explains it.
So... Is it true that all I need to do is:
aptitude unmarkauto u-boot-imx
aptitude purge u-boot
?
Do I need to do that on all of my arm based machines? If so, is there an approved way to figure out, for any given machine type, which of the "uboot-*" packages I should "unmarkauto?"?
Rick
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