Re: patches to ybin
Excerpts from Rick Thomas's message of Mon Jul 26 00:47:21 -0400 2010:
> On Jul 21, 2010, at 6:18 PM, Rogério Brito wrote:
> > On Jul 21 2010, Rick Thomas wrote:
> The second half is that whatever part of the installer that builds the
> initial yaboot.conf (the one that gets passed to ybin when it's time
> to install the bootloader) is not using the new syntax when it needs
> to. I'd try to fix that myself (I expect it's just a shell script)
> but I don't know what file in what udeb in what part of the installer
> to look at.
You are probably looking for yaboot-installer which is in
packages/arch/powerpc/yaboot-installer/.
>
> The third half of the problem is that whatever the kernel update deb
> uses to build a new yaboot.conf sometimes gets it wrong. Again, I
> expect that's just a shell script and I could probably fix it if
> somebody would point me to the right place to look.
I don't think that the kernel postinst script changes anything in the
yaboot.conf. To be sure you have to check the debian kernel package.
The kernel package just uses the yaboot.conf that's already there.
Gaudenz
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