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

[Michael Furr <furr@cs.umd.edu>]

On Tue, 30 May 2006, Sven Luther wrote:
> reassign 369448 mkvmlinuz
> thanks
Um, methinks you missed a CC to control@b.d.o?

> 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

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

-Mike