Re: d-i, pulling in fdisk-udeb

[Richard Hirst <rhirst@linuxcare.com>]

On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 03:09:25PM -0700, Matt Kraai wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 06:59:05PM +0100, Richard Hirst wrote:
> >   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.
> 
> I think the Depends field for partitioner should be
> 
>  Depends: cdebconf-udeb, fdisk-udeb, hw-detect-full
> 
> on hppa and left as
> 
>  Depends: cdebconf-udeb, parted-udeb, hw-detect-full
> 
> on other architectures.  I'm not sure how to do this, though.

According to partitioner/scripts/* there are many archs that want
*fdisk.  I can see lilo-installer depends on it, so I guess it is pulled
in for i386, but for no-one else.

Richard