On Sun, 2015-02-22 at 13:59 +1100, David wrote: > On 22 February 2015 at 10:04, Michal Suchanek <hramr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 21 February 2015 at 19:29, jnqnfe <jnq...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Tue, 2015-02-17 at 17:30 +0100, Michal Suchanek wrote: > >>> it seems mbr.bin has moved to a subdirectory which causes hdd build > >>> failure in Jessie. > >>> > >>> Attaching a patch. > >> > >> Sorry, where has this change occurred? Looking at the list of files > >> installed, e.g. [1] the file seems to be in exactly the same place as > >> live-build is currently looking... Or is this info out of date with > >> respect to what the package is installing and where?? > >> > >> [1] https://packages.debian.org/sid/amd64/syslinux/filelist > >> > > > > Actually, I would like to know too. The build was clearly failing at > > that point saying there is no such file and I had the mbr subdirectory > > in chroot but now the chroot does not have it. > > In wheezy [2] the syslinux-common package installs: > /usr/lib/syslinux/mbr.bin > > In jessie [3] this is unchanged only for [ia64, sparc, s390] > architectures, apparently for all other architectures it has been > changed to install to a sub-directory named "mbr": > /usr/lib/syslinux/mbr/mbr.bin > > And this breaks the references to mbr.bin in the binary_hdd script > for these architectures. > > [2] > https://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=contents&keywords=mbr.bin&mode=exactfilename&suite=stable&arch=any > > [3] > https://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=contents&keywords=mbr.bin&mode=exactfilename&suite=testing&arch=any
According to your [3], it is in the syslinux-common package where this change has occurred (if that wasn't how it already was previously). The 'syslinux' and 'extlinux' packages, which also carry a copy do not have it in an 'mbr' subdirectory, thus they have it in exactly the location the script is looking for it. The binary_hdd script uses either the syslinux or extlinux package, depending on what filesystem format it is going to use. It does not use the syslinux-common package. However the syslinux-common package may have been installed by another script in live-build, from which the 'mbr' directory was not deleted on removal at the end of that script, thus explaining its presence. I am not denying outright there's a problem, clearly the build failed, otherwise this discussion would not have begun. Perhaps when I can find a little time soon I'll run a HDD based build to check, but just on the face of it, looking at the info in the package system, I do not see why binary_hdd should need to look in in an 'mbr' sub-folder, and why it would fail from not being able to find the mbr.bin file. @Michal have you re-tried the build process since? (note, it's sometimes a good idea to run lb --clean before hand if a failure occurred). I.e., is this problem repeatable, or may it just have been a fluke, for example, maybe apt failed to download the syslinux/extlinux package and yet the build carried on anyway, then understandably failed to find the file. (Just a wild guess at a possible explanation). If it's not repeatable, and may have just been an odd fluke, we should close the bug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-live-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/1424578981.2444.16.ca...@gmail.com
