Package: base-installer
Version: 1.154
Tags: patch
Dear Maintainer,
I am trying to install Debian jessie on an arm device (Zyxel NSA325).
The device isn't yet officially supported by d-i and I had to make some
changes to d-i to run it on the device. I am willing to share my work as
soon as possible.
During the installation I get a message that the installer was unable to
find appropriate kernel package for the device.
No installable kernel was found in the defined APT sources. [...]
I have traced the the message and it comes from pick_kernel() in
/usr/lib//base-installer/library.sh. In /var/log/syslog I find a message
Jan 1 00:52:06 base-installer: info: could not determine kernel flavour
repeated several times and followed by
Jan 1 00:52:06 base-installer: info: Found kernels ''
A very brief investigation suggests that that the problems comes from
the references to unassigned $FLAVOUR variable. I may only suspect that
the code containing $FLAVOUR has been moved from some file without
moving actual assignment (like the one in
debian/bootstrap-base.postinst)
The attached patch renames occurrences of $FLAVOUR in library.sh to
$KERNEL_FLAVOUR. A quick in vitro test in a d-i shell
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
. /usr/lib/base-installer/kernel.sh
. /usr/lib/base-installer/library.sh;
kernel_update_list
cat /tmp/available_kernels.txt
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
returns expected results:
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
linux-image-kirkwood
linux-image-3.16.0-4-kirkwood
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
and the installer presents a nice list of available containing the two
above and a "none" option.
--
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>Łukasz< --- To dobrze, że mnie słuchasz.
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From 6885bbfe670ab48bdbc65a127331a7f380b71a59 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?=C5=81ukasz=20Stelmach?= <steelman@post.pl>
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2015 21:54:08 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Rename $FLAVOUR to $KERNEL_FLAVOUR
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Signed-off-by: Łukasz Stelmach <steelman@post.pl>
---
library.sh | 12 ++++++------
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/library.sh b/library.sh
index d73d880..cfb0f6f 100644
--- a/library.sh
+++ b/library.sh
@@ -349,12 +349,12 @@ kernel_update_list () {
cut -d" " -f1 | grep -v "linux-image-2.6" | uniq > "$KERNEL_LIST.unfiltered"
kernels=`sort -r "$KERNEL_LIST.unfiltered" | tr '\n' ' ' | sed -e 's/ $//'`
for candidate in $kernels; do
- if [ -n "$FLAVOUR" ]; then
- if arch_check_usable_kernel "$candidate" "$FLAVOUR"; then
+ if [ -n "$KERNEL_FLAVOUR" ]; then
+ if arch_check_usable_kernel "$candidate" "$KERNEL_FLAVOUR"; then
echo "$candidate"
- info "kernel $candidate usable on $FLAVOUR"
+ info "kernel $candidate usable on $KERNEL_FLAVOUR"
else
- info "kernel $candidate not usable on $FLAVOUR"
+ info "kernel $candidate not usable on $KERNEL_FLAVOUR"
fi
else
info "could not determine kernel flavour"
@@ -404,8 +404,8 @@ pick_kernel () {
# Unset seen flag in case we had an incorrect preseeded value.
db_fset base-installer/kernel/image seen false || true
- if [ -n "$FLAVOUR" ]; then
- arch_kernel="$(arch_get_kernel "$FLAVOUR")"
+ if [ -n "$KERNEL_FLAVOUR" ]; then
+ arch_kernel="$(arch_get_kernel "$KERNEL_FLAVOUR")"
# Hack to support selection of meta packages with a postfix
# added to the normal name (for updated kernels in stable).
--
2.4.6
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