On Thu, Feb 16, 2023 at 08:02:11PM +0100, Daniel Leidert wrote: >... > Most server providers have exctly *one* > rescue system from where I can do a clean installation with deboostrap > (and that even usually is a Debian). I cannot choose to use one that > hasn't an e2fsprogs that has this breaking change enabled. Say for > example, grml, used by multiple providers I know as rescue system and > based on Debian, picks up Bookworm with e2fsprogs with that change. Now > users trying to install anything other than a Debian Bookworm using the > deboostrap method will run into the situation that "grub-install" will > fail, and it won't even indicate that they will have to tune the just > created ext4 filesystem or even change /etc/mke2fs.conf. >...
You are saying that a bug report is needed against grml-debootstrap for disabling metadata_csum_seed in <= bullseye? The fix would likely be right next to the code that disables the new metadata_csum default in stretch for <= jessie where it was not supported. > Daniel cu Adrian
