Bug#368660: Cleanup of boot partition detection code

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

tags 368660 pending
thanks

On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 03:01:31PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> Bryan Stillwell wrote:
> > Package: elilo-installer
> > Version: 1.5
> > 
> > The attached patch was created to fix the following problems installing
> > Ubuntu on ia64:
> > 
> > https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/elilo-installer/+bug/38232
> > https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/elilo-installer/+bug/40665
> > 
> > I haven't tested this on Debian, but the new code is cleaner and less
> > prone to failures imo.  However, there is now a dependency on partman's
> > find-partitions...
> 
> I'd normally wait for Colin to merge this into d-i, but I can go ahead
> if there's some hold-up there.

Nope, just busy ... thanks for the reminder, merged now.

> > +/usr/lib/partconf/find-partitions --flag boot | while read part fs size; do
> 
> So actually the dependency is on partconf-find-partitions and 
> efi-installer will need to have that dep added to it.

That dependency was in the patch I applied in Ubuntu, and I've merged
that in directly.

Cheers,

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson@debian.org]