On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 12:28:50 +0000, Stephen Gran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> This one time, at band camp, Manoj Srivastava said:
>> Hi, On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 01:33:09 +0000, Stephen Gran
>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>>
>> > I at first thought the source symlink might be another candidate
>> > for this list, but I see now that source is dpkg managed, and
>> > properly removed. build is not shipped in the package, so must
>> > be handled manually. I assume modules.seriomap is another
>> > autogenerated file.
>>
>> Actually, this is not true: make-kpkg build image packages do ship
>> the build symlink.
> Not here: ~$ dpkg -c
> /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-image-2.6.20-rc5-686_2.6.20~rc5-1~experimental.1~snapshot.8193_i386.deb
> | egrep '(build|source)'
Hmm. And this was built with just make-kpkg, and without the
linux-2.6 wrapper? I wonder if this is a 2.6.20 thing. You see,
kbuild is the one that install the source and build symlinks;
kernel-package does nto remove them from the tree.
__> egrep '(build|source)' /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-image-2.6.1*.list
/var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-image-2.6.18.2-mh7-skas3-v9-pre9.list:/usr/share/doc/linux-image-2.6.18.2-mh7-skas3-v9-pre9/examples/sample.force-build-link.sh
/var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-image-2.6.18.2-mh7-skas3-v9-pre9.list:/usr/share/doc/linux-image-2.6.18.2-mh7-skas3-v9-pre9/buildinfo.gz
/var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-image-2.6.18.2-mh7-skas3-v9-pre9.list:/lib/modules/2.6.18.2-mh7-skas3-v9-pre9/source
/var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-image-2.6.18.2-mh7-skas3-v9-pre9.list:/lib/modules/2.6.18.2-mh7-skas3-v9-pre9/build
/var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-image-2.6.18-mh1-skas3-v9-pre9-fremap.list:/usr/share/doc/linux-image-2.6.18-mh1-skas3-v9-pre9-fremap/examples/sample.force-build-link.sh
/var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-image-2.6.18-mh1-skas3-v9-pre9-fremap.list:/usr/share/doc/linux-image-2.6.18-mh1-skas3-v9-pre9-fremap/buildinfo.gz
/var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-image-2.6.18-mh1-skas3-v9-pre9-fremap.list:/lib/modules/2.6.18-mh1-skas3-v9-pre9-fremap/source
/var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-image-2.6.18-mh1-skas3-v9-pre9-fremap.list:/lib/modules/2.6.18-mh1-skas3-v9-pre9-fremap/build
/var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-image-2.6.19.1-skas3-v9-pre9.list:/usr/share/doc/linux-image-2.6.19.1-skas3-v9-pre9/examples/sample.force-build-link.sh
/var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-image-2.6.19.1-skas3-v9-pre9.list:/usr/share/doc/linux-image-2.6.19.1-skas3-v9-pre9/buildinfo.gz
/var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-image-2.6.19.1-skas3-v9-pre9.list:/lib/modules/2.6.19.1-skas3-v9-pre9/source
/var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-image-2.6.19.1-skas3-v9-pre9.list:/lib/modules/2.6.19.1-skas3-v9-pre9/build
> Although the image in sid currently: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dpkg -L
> Does apparently ship a source.
It would have shipped a build link too, if linux-2.6 had not
deleted it.
>> So, if your image package did not ship the build link, how did it
>> get there? I think we need to fix
>> a) whatever created your linux image package, since it is not
>> creating the symlink, and failing to remove it, or
>> b) whatever package created the link, and did not put into place a
>> mechanism to remove the link.
> It looks like the postinst creates these links with fix_build_link
> and fix_source_link routines, respectively. Since the postinst
> creates the links, the postrm has to remove them.
Umm, no. The fix routing fixes links, does not install new
ones.
sub fix_build_link {
return unless -d "$modules_base/$version";
# if we saved a build link in preinst, restore the link
# This is in case there was an official header package that was
# installed earlier -- this is a kludge
}
if ($relink_build_link || $force_build_link) {
# remove dangling links or replace with link to source pkg
}
}
>> So, in order to flush out these packages with the bugs, perhaps the
>> postinst should not forcibly remove a symbolic link that should
>> have been removed by dpkg, under normal operations.
>>
>> So, if you could provide the information about the package creating
>> the build symlink, and the package creating the linux image
>> (linux-2.6, correct?); perhaps this bug can be cloned to those
>> packages to clean up the symbolic link they are leaving behind.
> It is linux-image-2.6.20-rc5-686 from
> http://kernel-archive.buildserver.net/debian-kernel - whatevere they
> use to build their packages with is presumably at fault. The
> postinst and postrm sure look like kernel-package scripts to me,
> thoguh.
Right.
manoj
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