Bug#369448: linux-image-2.6.16-2-powerpc: package fails to install
On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 03:50:41AM -0400, Michael Furr wrote:
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> 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:
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> # 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
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