Control: clone -1 -2 Control: reassign -1 cdrom-detect Control: retitle -1 cdrom-detect: ask hw-detect to skip missing firmware detection Control: reassign -2 iso-scan Control: retitle -2 iso-scan: maybe ask hw-detect to skip missing firmware detection Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org> (2021-07-28): > While I'm not entirely certain about use-cases around iso-scan, I would > think cdrom-detect should be one of the very few first things to happen > on a system, and that raising errors because of missing firmware files > at this stage wouldn't help: even a firmware-enabled image wouldn't be > mounted and firmware packages wouldn't be available (later, they show up > at /cdrom/firmware). > > Therefore, I'm proposing: > > 1. Implement support for an environment variable in hw-detect, that > would disable the check-missing-firmware call. Done, but only tested manually (be re-typing the patch live). > 2. Set this variable for both hw-detect calls in cdrom-detect's > postinst. [This should fix the problem I'm seeing.] Done, will be tracked by -1 (same proviso as above). > 3. Set this variable for the hw-detect call in iso-scan's postinst. > [Optional, I'm not sure what people are doing before iso-scan kicks > in; maybe some firmware-holding block devices could be available at > this stage, so letting the missing firmware detection in place might > make sense in this case.] Not done, we'll keep track of it via -2 and see if people hit the issue, mention their use case, and if we can draw any conclusions as to whether we should go the same route as with cdrom-detect. Cheers, -- Cyril Brulebois (kibi@debian.org) <https://debamax.com/> D-I release manager -- Release team member -- Freelance Consultant
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