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Bug#805223: base-installer unable to determine kernel



On Mon, 2015-11-16 at 10:16 +0100, Łukasz Stelmach wrote:
> Dnia 15 listopad 2015 o 22:54 Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> napisał(a):
[...]
> > 
> > > 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)
> > [...]
> > 
> > These functions are only ever called by debian/bootstrap-base.postinst.
> > I think the problem is that arch_get_kernel_flavour is failing.
> 
> I have never said they are. I only gave the postinst script as an example
> of a place where FLAVOUR is assigned. Do you know of any other place?

I don't; that's my point.  There is one caller and it sets FLAVOUR.

> > This definitely doesn't seem like a proper fix.
> 
> Then what is in your opinion KERNEL_FLAVOUR for? It can't but ask why
> there are two variables with apparently the same value (or at least
> values from the same set).
[...]

I think it's obsolete, but it used to be used in the i386 kernel
selection to decide whether to install a kernel that supports PAE.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
                                                           - Albert Einstein

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