Re: d-i, pulling in fdisk-udeb

[stappers@stappers.nl (Geert Stappers)]

On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 06:59:05PM +0100, Richard Hirst wrote:
> Hi,
>   For hppa I need fdisk-udeb pulled in when d-i runs.  parted cannot be
> used to partition for hppa because we need a partition for palo of type
> 'f0', and parted doesn't let you specify partition types (didn't last
> time I looked anyway).  At the moment I have to specifically request
> that installer module in the "load installer modules" menu item.
> 
> How should I make fdisk-udeb get pulled in automatically?  I could make
> palo-installer depend on it, I guess, but that doesn't sound very
> logical as palo doesn't really care which partitioner is used provided
> it creates the right partitions.

In build/Makefile is this code:

|# Build the driver floppy image
|$(EXTRA_TARGETS) : %-stamp : $(TYPE)-get_udebs-stamp
|        mkdir -p  ${TEMP}/$*
|        for file in $(shell grep --no-filename -v ^\#  pkg-lists/$*/common \
|                `if [ -f pkg-lists/$*/$(DEB_HOST_ARCH) ]; then echo pkg-lists/$*/$(DEB_HOST_ARCH); fi` \
|                | sed -e 's/^\(.*\)$${kernel:Version}\(.*\)$$/$(foreach VERSION,$(KERNELIMAGEVERSION),\1$(VERSION)\2\n)/g' ) ; do \
|                        cp $(EXTRAUDEBDIR)/$$file* ${TEMP}/$*  ; \
|                        echo $$file >> ${TEMP}/$*/udeb_include; \
|        done
|        touch $@

It generates "udeb_include" from files under build/pkg-lists
I have not yet played with it, but that is where I would start
adding udebs.

Something to keep in mind:

ppcdetect will be replaced by archdetect.

> 
> Richard
> 

Geert Stappers