Le jeudi 16 septembre 2010 à 15:12 +0200, Benjamin Cama a écrit : > You mentioned that linux-base may modify /etc/yaboot.conf. I think it > might be the culprit for this bug, but I would first like to know how > and why it does that ?
OK, I was right, thanks to your hint: see http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/kernel/dists/sid/linux-2.6/debian/linux-base.postinst The yaboot.conf is taken as if it has the lilo syntax. And this script adds spaces and quotes around key/value pairs and let /dev/disk/by-* names. This is not compatible with yaboot. I also saw that you filled this bug: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=581173 which make me think that your approach is to adapt every bootloader to this syntax. The problem is, not every bootloader maintainers or volunteer contributors have the resources to do so. Yaboot has not changed in 4 years, and even if Rick Thomas submitted a patch to handle that, I am not sure anything will be eventually integrated (I sent an email earlier on debian-ppc list to ask if someone would volunteer to take over yaboot maintenance, as the maintainers are unresponsive for so long). Furthermore, this change affected a lot of users since at least last may, and I just found it now ! In between, this was a major disruption for Debian on PPC (3 persons reported being affected by this bug, which is quite a lot for our architecture). Could you tell us (I Cc'ed debian-ppc) your view on this problem ? Is the workaround for 581173 I see in the code (removing spaces) a good idea to apply quickly to fix this bug too ? Thanks, benjamin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1284644653.3106.87.ca...@nsk
