Bug#580455: Fwd: lastest Sid upgrade breakes yaboot.conf and (maybe) ybin

[Rick Thomas <rbthomas@pobox.com>]

Has anybody else noticed this problem?

In the absence of any word from anybody else, I'm working on a patch  
to /usr/sbin/ybin that takes these changes into account, but I'd feel  
better if somebody who knew what he/she was doing could take a look at  
my patch and pass it along to the PTBs.  I'm just a tester.  I report  
bugs.  I'm not a DD (and don't want to be one!) so actually fixing  
bugs is not my job.  On the other hand, I think it would be a shame to  
let something like this go forward into the release just because  
nobody cared enough to get it fixed.

Enjoy!

Rick

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Rick Thomas <rbthomas@dillserver.rcthomas.org>
> Date: May 6, 2010 1:59:09 AM EDT
> To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
> Subject: lastest Sid upgrade breakes yaboot.conf and (maybe) ybin
>
> Package: yaboot
> Version: 1.3.13a-1
> Severity: important
>
>
> The latest kernel upgrade modifies yaboot.conf in bad ways.
>
> 1) It puts spaces around the "=" and quotes the argument, which  
> confuses ybin.
> 	# diff /etc/yaboot.conf.old /etc/yaboot.conf
> 	9c9,12
> 	< boot=/dev/hda2
> 	---
> 	>
> 	> # boot = /dev/hda2
> 	> boot = "/dev/disk/by-label/bootstrap"
> 	>
> 	12c15,18
> 	< root=/dev/hda6
> 	---
> 	>
> 	> # root = /dev/hda6
> 	> root = "UUID=88a47bea-8c36-4a09-b418-747e2396feb2"
> 	>
>
> ybin thinks the space between the "=" and the RHS and the quotes- 
> marks are part of the RHS.
> It then says that the file "/dev/disk/by-label/bootstrap" (including  
> the quote-marks) doesn't exist.
> If I remove the quote-marks, it still fails, beacuse it thinks the  
> leading space is part of the file name.
> If I remove the leading space *and* the quote marks, it gets  
> further... But...
>
> 2) Later on, ofpath gets called on /dev/disk/by-label/bootstrap  
> which ofpath is unable to parse.
> It says "ofpath: Device: /dev/bootstrap is not supported".
>
> This could probably be fixed by running $boot thru "readlink -f" to  
> canonicalize it,
> but that part of ybin is complicated enough that I decided it should  
> be done by an expert.
>
> Hope this helps!
>
> Rick
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: squeeze/sid
>  APT prefers unstable
>  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
> Architecture: powerpc (ppc)
>
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-powerpc
> Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
>
> Versions of packages yaboot depends on:
> ii  libc6                         2.10.2-7   Embedded GNU C Library:  
> Shared lib
>
> Versions of packages yaboot recommends:
> ii  hfsutils                      3.2.6-11   Tools for reading and  
> writing Maci
> ii  powerpc-utils                 1.1.3-24   Various utilities for  
> Linux/PowerP
>
> yaboot suggests no packages.
>
> -- no debconf information