Re: Let's talk about conflicts and omissions in the udeb distribution

[Philipp Kern <pkern@debian.org>]

Hi,

On 2017-10-12 18:35, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote:
> Unpacking libkmod2-udeb (24-1) ...
> dpkg: warning: overriding problem because --force enabled:
> dpkg: warning: trying to overwrite '/sbin/depmod', which is also in
> package busybox-udeb 1:1.27.2-1
> dpkg: warning: overriding problem because --force enabled:
> dpkg: warning: trying to overwrite '/sbin/insmod', which is also in
> package busybox-udeb 1:1.27.2-1
> dpkg: warning: overriding problem because --force enabled:
> dpkg: warning: trying to overwrite '/sbin/lsmod', which is also in
> package busybox-udeb 1:1.27.2-1
> dpkg: warning: overriding problem because --force enabled:
> dpkg: warning: trying to overwrite '/sbin/modinfo', which is also in
> package busybox-udeb 1:1.27.2-1
> dpkg: warning: overriding problem because --force enabled:
> dpkg: warning: trying to overwrite '/sbin/modprobe', which is also in
> package busybox-udeb 1:1.27.2-1
> dpkg: warning: overriding problem because --force enabled:
> dpkg: warning: trying to overwrite '/sbin/rmmod', which is also in
> package busybox-udeb 1:1.27.2-1
>
> Do we need both implementations of modprobe tools? Should one of them
> (kmod, busybox) stop building/shipping them? Or should those tools be
> shipped in busybox-kmod-udeb and kmod-udeb?

why is this on -devel and not -boot and why is this not in a bug? 
https://bugs.debian.org/871045 is somewhat related.

> Ditto:
> Unpacking wget-udeb (1.19.1-4) ...
> dpkg: warning: overriding problem because --force enabled:
> dpkg: warning: trying to overwrite '/usr/bin/wget', which is also in
> package busybox-udeb 1:1.27.2-1
>
> Also note that libkmod2-udeb does not actually ship libkmod.so.2... on
> that note this:
>
> INFO: Using /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 as dynamic linker
> INFO: library reduction pass 1
> WARNING: Library libkmod.so.2 found in the default path 
> /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/
> WARNING: Library libslang.so.2 found in the default path 
> /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/
> WARNING: Library libnewt.so.0.52 found in the default path
> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/
> WARNING: Library libgcc_s.so.1 found in the default path 
> /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/
> INFO: library reduction pass 2
> INFO: stripping and copying dynamic linker to 
> ..//lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2
>
> I've changed mklibs-copy to print a warning whenever libraries are
> pulled from the host instead of the udeb.
>
> Shouldn't the all of the above be shipped in udebs? As in do we expect
> .udebs to be selfcontained? I was a bit perplexed that libkmod2-udeb
> does not ship shared library and thus system one is used which is
> built differently.
> (all of udeb is build without hardening, but deb library is built with
> hardening)

Maybe you should file bugs and/or discuss this on -boot.

Kind regards
Philipp Kern