Package: debian-installer
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
Usertags: gsoc2010
Hello,
(my earlier email to debian-boot did not attract any comment, I'm
resubmitting this as a bug so as to document and keep track of it)
The get-packages script from installer/build/util/ uses "sort | tail -1"
to get the most recent version of a given udeb from apt.udeb/cache.
This may cause images to be built with outdated udebs.
The attached patch makes it use 'dpkg --compare-versions' instead.
Thanks,
--
Jeremie Koenig <j...@jk.fr.eu.org>
http://jk.fr.eu.org
Index: debian/changelog
===================================================================
--- debian/changelog (revision 63446)
+++ debian/changelog (working copy)
@@ -69,8 +69,11 @@
[ Otavio Salvador ]
* Move hppa, ia64, powerpc and s390 to linux 2.6.32 (ABI 5).
- -- Christian Perrier <bubu...@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 2010 17:06:27 +0100
+ [ Jeremie Koenig ]
+ * util/get-packages: fix selection of the most recent packages.
+ -- Jeremie Koenig <j...@jk.fr.eu.org> Thu, 17 Jun 2010 17:01:14 +0200
+
debian-installer (20100211) unstable; urgency=low
[ Frans Pop ]
Index: build/util/get-packages
===================================================================
--- build/util/get-packages (revision 63446)
+++ build/util/get-packages (working copy)
@@ -186,7 +186,13 @@
lnpkg() {
local pkg=$1; local dir=$2 debdir=$3
- local L="`find $dir -name "${pkg}_*" 2>/dev/null | sort | tail -n 1`"
+ local L LV l lv
+ for l in `find $dir -name "${pkg}_*" 2>/dev/null`; do
+ lv=${l%_*}; lv=${lv##*_};
+ if dpkg --compare-versions "$lv" gt "$LV"; then
+ L=$l LV=$lv
+ fi
+ done
if [ -e "$L" ]; then
ln -f $L $debdir/$pkg.$TYPE
fi
