Control: tag -1 - patch Control: tag -1 moreinfo On Sun, 2015-11-15 at 22:17 +0100, Łukasz Stelmach wrote: > Package: base-installer > Version: 1.154 > Tags: patch > > Dear Maintainer, > > I am trying to install Debian jessie on an arm device (Zyxel NSA325). > The device isn't yet officially supported by d-i and I had to make some > changes to d-i to run it on the device. I am willing to share my work as > soon as possible. > > During the installation I get a message that the installer was unable to > find appropriate kernel package for the device. > > No installable kernel was found in the defined APT sources. [...] > > I have traced the the message and it comes from pick_kernel() in > /usr/lib//base-installer/library.sh. In /var/log/syslog I find a message > > Jan 1 00:52:06 base-installer: info: could not determine kernel flavour > > repeated several times and followed by > > Jan 1 00:52:06 base-installer: info: Found kernels '' > > A very brief investigation suggests that that the problems comes from > the references to unassigned $FLAVOUR variable.
Unassigned, or empty?
> I may only suspect that
> the code containing $FLAVOUR has been moved from some file without
> moving actual assignment (like the one in
> debian/bootstrap-base.postinst)
[...]
These functions are only ever called by debian/bootstrap-base.postinst.
I think the problem is that arch_get_kernel_flavour is failing.
This definitely doesn't seem like a proper fix.
Ben.
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