Bug#506711: kernel-package: [sparc] no longer produces compressed kernels for linux-2.6
Package: kernel-package
Version: 11.0011
Severity: serious
Tags: d-i
Justification: kernels built using this break sparc D-I builds
Daily builds of D-I for sparc have been failing with:
gzip: ./tmp/netboot/vmlinuz-2.6.26-1-sparc64: not in gzip format
This has been traced to the fact that the kernel as taken from the
2.6.26-10 linux-image package for sparc64 (built 08 Nov) is no longer
compressed. As sparc still uses kernel-package to build official Debian
kernel images (based on info from Bastian Blank), this is most likely a
regression in kernel-package.
It is unknown whether this issue also affects other architectures or not.
The previous D-I kernel udebs were based on linux-image 2.6.26-8 (built
for sparc on 9 Okt) did not have this issue, so at that time things were
still OK.
Please inform both the kernel team and the installer teams when this issue
is fixed as we will need binNMU's for linux-2.6 for any (potentially)
affected architectures and after that new uploads of the kernel udebs for
D-I.
Cheers,
FJP
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.28-rc6 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages kernel-package depends on:
ii binutils 2.18.1~cvs20080103-7 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii debianutils 2.30 Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii dpkg 1.14.22 Debian package management system
ii dpkg-dev 1.14.22 Debian package development tools
ii file 4.26-1 Determines file type using "magic"
ii gcc [c-compiler] 4:4.3.2-2 The GNU C compiler
ii gcc-4.1 [c-compiler 4.1.2-23 The GNU C compiler
ii gcc-4.2 [c-compiler 4.2.4-4 The GNU C compiler
ii gcc-4.3 [c-compiler 4.3.2-1 The GNU C compiler
ii gettext 0.17-4 GNU Internationalization utilities
ii make 3.81-5 The GNU version of the "make" util
ii module-init-tools 3.4-1 tools for managing Linux kernel mo
ii perl 5.10.0-17 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
ii po-debconf 1.0.15 manage translated Debconf template
ii util-linux 2.13.1.1-1 Miscellaneous system utilities
Versions of packages kernel-package recommends:
ii bzip2 1.0.5-1 high-quality block-sorting file co
ii libc6-dev [libc-dev] 2.7-16 GNU C Library: Development Librari
Versions of packages kernel-package suggests:
pn docbook-utils <none> (no description available)
ii e2fsprogs 1.41.3-1 ext2/ext3/ext4 file system utiliti
ii initramfs-tools [linux-in 0.92l tools for generating an initramfs
pn libdb3-dev <none> (no description available)
ii libncurses5-dev [libncurs 5.6+20080830-1 developer's libraries and docs for
pn linux-source | kernel-sou <none> (no description available)
ii xmlto 0.0.20-3 XML-to-any converter
-- no debconf information
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