Bug#369448: linux-image-2.6.16-2-powerpc: package fails to install

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

On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 03:50:41AM -0400, Michael Furr wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 30 May 2006, Sven Luther wrote:
> > reassign 369448 mkvmlinuz
> > thanks
> Um, methinks you missed a CC to control@b.d.o?

Nope, i always bcc control, so people don't resend stuff to it when they
'g'-reply.

> > You are on a powermac system, and as thus, you should have goten the default
> > reply of yaboot to the mkvmlinuz question. Please do a :
> >
> >   dpkg-reconfigure mkvmlinuz
> Indeed, previously:
> 
> # debconf-show mkvmlinuz
> * mkvmlinuz/bootloaders: yaboot

Ok.

> I also ran the reconfigure just in case.
> 
> >   dpkg-reconfigure linux-image-2.6.16-2-powerpc
> > and send us the output of this. This should just notice that you have
> > yaboot configured, and skip any mkvmlinuz invocation, and this script
> > has not really changed since like forever, so i don't understand what
> > went wrong here, apart maybe some mis-detection of the subarch, which
> > would have the system default to mkvmlinuz instead of yaboot.
> 
> Well, running -reconfigure just complains its not installed... Trying to

dpkg-reconfigure is a separate package that you need to install.

> reinstall from aptitude with the added set -x yields exactly as you say:
> [...]
> + bootloader=yaboot
> + '[' yaboot = mkvmlinuz ']'

So, where is the failure ?  Can you give me the complete log ? 

Friendly,

Sven Luther