On Thu, Jan 01, 1970 at 12:49:11AM +0000, Martin Stigge wrote: > Package: flash-kernel > Version: 3.33 > Severity: normal > > Hi, > > I just installed flash-kernel but didn't have u-boot-tools installed. I > believe it's the initramfs trigger that failed with the following: > > Generating boot script u-boot image... /usr/sbin/flash-kernel: 348: > /usr/sbin/flash-kernel: mkimage: not found > run-parts: /etc/initramfs/post-update.d//flash-kernel exited with return code > 127 > dpkg: error processing package initramfs-tools (--configure): > subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 > Errors were encountered while processing: > initramfs-tools > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) > > That's easily resolved by installing the u-boot-tools package, but I would > have expected that do be a dependency in that case. I see that it's a > Suggests, but looks rather essential to me.
It may or may not be, depending on your particular hardware. The proper way to flash a kernel differs from machine to machine, and from bootloader to bootloader. Therefore, flash-kernel has a lot of code paths, some of which require mkimage, some of which don't. When d-i installs flash-kernel, it will also make sure that the required dependencies are in place, so a suggests seems correct to me. -- It is easy to love a country that is famous for chocolate and beer -- Barack Obama, speaking in Brussels, Belgium, 2014-03-26 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150324090743.ga1...@grep.be
