Bug#586605: firmware-b43-installer: do not fail on kernel version mismatch
Package: firmware-b43-installer
Version: 4.150.10.5-4
Severity: important
firmware-b43-installer currently fails in postinst script on kernel versions <
2.6.25. This makes impossible to install firmware-b43-installer in the
deboostrapped environment, since it may not have a kernel at all, but the host
system has 2.6.18 or similar. postinst script should ask if it's ok to install
firmware-b43-installer anyway (like udev does).
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (20, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-4-686-bigmem (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ru_RU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages firmware-b43-installer depends on:
ii b43-fwcutter 1:013-2 Utility for extracting Broadcom 43
ii bzip2 1.0.5-4 high-quality block-sorting file co
ii wget 1.12-2 retrieves files from the web
Versions of packages firmware-b43-installer recommends:
ii linux-image-2.6.32-4-686-bigm 2.6.32-11 Linux 2.6.32 for PCs with 4GB+ RAM
firmware-b43-installer suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
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