Re: patches to ybin
Excerpts from Rick Thomas's message of Mit Jul 28 23:49:45 -0400 2010:
> On Jul 28, 2010, at 1:15 PM, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote:
> >>
> >> The third half of the problem is that whatever the kernel update deb
> >> uses to build a new yaboot.conf sometimes gets it wrong. Again, I
> >> expect that's just a shell script and I could probably fix it if
> >> somebody would point me to the right place to look.
> >
> > I don't think that the kernel postinst script changes anything in the
> > yaboot.conf. To be sure you have to check the debian kernel package.
> >
> > The kernel package just uses the yaboot.conf that's already there.
>
> Well, that can't be entirely true. If I install Lenny on one of my
> test machines then try to upgrade to Squeeze, I get a garbled
> yaboot.conf and the machine refuses to boot until I do some surgery
> with a rescue CD. I don't know whether it's the kernel package or
> something it drags in that is causing this. Any help will be much
> appreciated!!!
It would be nice if you could submit a bug report about this. And even
nicer if you could debug it or at least find out which package fucks
up with yaboot.conf. This really should not happen.
I'm currently at Debconf and don't have my powerpc box with me. So I
can't help currently with this.
Gaudenz
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