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Re: d-i, pulling in fdisk-udeb



On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 11:02:09PM +0100, Richard Hirst wrote:
> 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.

OK, so other architectures may need to tweak it also.  In any
case, using architecture-specific Depends seems like the right
solution.

-- 
Matt



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