Bug#290329: missing modules on powerpc images

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 12:22:46PM +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote:
> severity 290329 grave
> thanks
> 
> I tried to install Sarge on a ppc and... it failed! Because at least
> some modules have been missing. Following semi-official hints, I figured
> out that MODULES=dep needs to be set to make it work. This has been
> confirmed by Sven (see below).

Yes, indeed, setting MODULES=dep by default on powerpc should be safe, the
only reason to keep most is for x86, where we are fearing that the mkinitrd
detection code is broken for some cases and play safe.

This is not the case for powerpc, where we have rather good knowledge of what
hardware is available, and the initrd size constraint on some arches
overbalance the eventual lone case of this not being true, and it is
preferable to know about such case and fix them anyway.

Jeff, please fix this in a proposed-for-sarge initrd-tools upload, or at least
in the unstable version.

Friendly,

Sven Luther