Thank you for the background. This can be marked as invalid. On Fri, 22 Sept 2023 at 16:12, Colin Watson <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 22, 2023 at 03:41:53PM +0100, Phil Roche wrote: > > While working on new arm64 Ubuntu 23.10 Mantic minimal cloud images > > (http://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/minimal/daily/mantic/) we discovered > that > > `dmidecode` was not being installed in the arm64 images. > > > > In debugging, I found that the package dependencies of the libparted2 > > package > > differ between arm64 and amd64. arm64 `libparted2` does not depend on > > `dmidecode` but on amd64 it does. > > This is intentional, because libparted only uses dmidecode for > identifying old Intel Macs with special GPT quirks, and that's only > relevant on x86. I don't personally see why this needs to be extended > to arm64, although of course if somebody comes forward and explicitly > confirms that it's relevant to partitioning on Apple Silicon or whatever > then we could do that - but I wouldn't do it just for architectural > symmetry. > > If you explicitly need dmidecode to be on your images, then I think you > should have an explicit dependency or similar to ensure that, rather > than relying on a dependency via libparted (which is an implementation > detail). Is that a problem? > > -- > Colin Watson (he/him) [[email protected]] > -- Phil Roche Staff Software Engineer Canonical Public Cloud
