Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com> (04/06/2013): > * Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com> [2013-01-02 19:37]: > > > > Well, I even moved it to Depends in my commit. I'm not sure it is a > > > > good idea to rely on Recommends being installed if the mkimage > > > > program is required in some situations. > > > > I disagree. flash-kernel maintains a database with information about > > each device, including a list of required packages. It will install > > those required packages. u-boot-tools is listed for the Linkstation, > > so the real question is why it's not being installed. > > I just received several bug reports about this issue and decided to > investigate. Many thanks! > The flash-kernel database files says: > # somewhat RFC2822 based, but case sensitive, not tolerant to spaces etc. > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > The flash-kernel-installer postinst is looking for Required-Packages, > but several devices use Required-packages (note the lower case > "packages"). > > The fix is a simple s/Required-packages/Required-Packages/, and we > have to apply it both to unstable and wheezy (as installations fail > without this fix). Maybe we should also perform a .db check at build time, so that any new such items would be spotted early? The following shell snippet seems to do the trick, and could be added to debian/rules, causing non-zero exit in case there are some hits? $ for i in Optional Required; do ok=$(grep -c ^$i-Packages db/all.db); all=$(grep -i -c ^$i-Packages db/all.db); if [ $ok != $all ]; then echo "Wrong case for $((all-ok)) $i-Packages fields in db/all.db"; fi; done Wrong case for 12 Required-Packages fields in db/all.db Feel free to add that to master if you like it, and upload the resulting package to unstable. I can take care of preparing the wheezy branch and the wheezy pu bug report. Mraw, KiBi.
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