Re: 2.6.14-rc5 uploaded to experimental available at http://people.debian.org/~luther/2.6.14-rc5
Sven Luther declared on Tuesday 25 October 2005 06:03 am:
> Hello,
>
> I just uploaded 2.6.14-rc5 packages to experimental, which are a test
> run before 2.6.14 gets released and the corresponding packages go to
> unstable. Since they are NEW i have made them available under :
>
> http://people.debian.org/~luther/2.6.14-rc5
>
> And apt-gettable at :
>
> deb http://http://people.debian.org/~luther/2.6.14-rc5/ ./
> deb-src http://http://people.debian.org/~luther/2.6.14-rc5/ ./
>
> Those are only powerpc packages now, but i send this mail in hopes
> that :
>
> 1) powerpc users use them and test them out, with either yaird or
> initramfs-tools (but beware #335264 which will be fixed in -9).
When I try to install, I get this as a result:
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root@quasar:~# apt-get install linux-image-2.6.14-rc5-powerpc
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Suggested packages:
linux-doc-2.6.14 linux-source-2.6.14
The following NEW packages will be installed:
linux-image-2.6.14-rc5-powerpc
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/15.7MB of archives.
After unpacking 47.5MB of additional disk space will be used.
WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!
linux-image-2.6.14-rc5-powerpc
Install these packages without verification [y/N]? y
Selecting previously deselected package linux-image-2.6.14-rc5-powerpc.
(Reading database ... 15120 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking linux-image-2.6.14-rc5-powerpc (from
.../linux-image-2.6.14-rc5-powerpc_2.6.13+2.6.14-rc5-0experimental.1_powerpc.deb) ...
You are attempting to install an initrd kernel image (version
2.6.14-rc5-powerpc) while running a kernel of version 2.4.27-powerpc, but
you have no suitable ramdisk generation tool installed among
/usr/sbin/mkinitrd /usr/sbin/mkinitrd.yaird /usr/sbin/mkinitramfs. This will
break the installation, unless a
suitable ramdisk generation tool is also being installed right
now.
Could not find . at /var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/preinst line 228.
Setting up linux-image-2.6.14-rc5-powerpc (2.6.13+2.6.14-rc5-0experimental.1) ...
Failed to find suitable ramdisk generation tool for kernel version
2.6.14-rc5-powerpc on running kernel 2.4.27-powerpc in /usr/sbin/mkinitrd
/usr/sbin/mkinitrd.yaird /usr/sbin/mkinitramfs
dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6.14-rc5-powerpc (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
linux-image-2.6.14-rc5-powerpc
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
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I've got yaird installed:
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 28426 Aug 15 10:51 /usr/sbin/mkinitrd
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1940 Sep 11 23:30 /usr/sbin/mkinitrd.yaird
Anything obvious I'm doing wrong? Contents of my /etc/apt/sources.list:
deb http://ftp.uwsg.indiana.edu/linux/debian testing main non-free contrib
deb-src http://ftp.uwsg.indiana.edu/linux/debian testing main non-free contrib
deb http://people.debian.org/~luther/2.6.14-rc5/ ./
Pat
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