Debian Bug report logs - #243669
yaboot-installer: look for PReP partition on chrp

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Sven Luther <luther@debian.org>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: yaboot-installer: yaboot asks for Apple_bootstrap partition even on non pmac hardware.

Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 10:43:21 +0200

Package: yaboot-installer
Version: 0.0.15
Severity: important
Tags: d-i

Hello,

yaboot-installer does again appear on chrp boxes, which is ok, but
aborts because it is asking for a Apple_Bootstrap partition. On
chrp-rs6k, a PReP partition is needed, and on chrp-pegasos, no special
partition at all is needed, and yaboot doesn't work anyway.

A solution to this problem would be to :

  1) make sure we propose yaboot-installer on newworld and non-pegasos
  chrp only.

  2) do the Apple_bootstrap check on newworld pmac hardware only.

Friendly,

Sven Luther

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (400, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.24
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.ISO-8859-1, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.ISO-8859-1

Message #10 received at 243669@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>

To: Sven Luther <luther@debian.org>, 243669@bugs.debian.org

Cc: control@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#243669: yaboot-installer: yaboot asks for Apple_bootstrap partition even on non pmac hardware.

Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 11:38:50 +0100

clone 243669 -1
reassign -1 libdebian-installer
retitle -1 libdebian-installer: subarch check incorrectly matches prefix of subarch
thanks

On Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 10:43:21AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> Package: yaboot-installer
> Version: 0.0.15
> Severity: important
> Tags: d-i
> 
> Hello,
> 
> yaboot-installer does again appear on chrp boxes, which is ok, but
> aborts because it is asking for a Apple_Bootstrap partition. On
> chrp-rs6k, a PReP partition is needed,

This needs additional parted support to work properly, I think. If I
create a PReP partition on an msdos disklabel using fdisk, parted
displays the partition type as blank.

> and on chrp-pegasos, no special partition at all is needed, and yaboot
> doesn't work anyway.
> 
> A solution to this problem would be to :
> 
>   1) make sure we propose yaboot-installer on newworld and non-pegasos
>   chrp only.

This is a bug in libdebian-installer. It's only supposed to pass the
subarchitecture check on chrp, not chrp_pegasos too.

>   2) do the Apple_bootstrap check on newworld pmac hardware only.

This should be fixed in yaboot-installer, yes.

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]

Message #23 received at 243669-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>

To: 243669-close@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Bug#243669: fixed in yaboot-installer 1.0.2

Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 15:49:50 -0500

Source: yaboot-installer
Source-Version: 1.0.2

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
yaboot-installer, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:

yaboot-installer_1.0.2.dsc
  to pool/main/y/yaboot-installer/yaboot-installer_1.0.2.dsc
yaboot-installer_1.0.2.tar.gz
  to pool/main/y/yaboot-installer/yaboot-installer_1.0.2.tar.gz
yaboot-installer_1.0.2_powerpc.udeb
  to pool/main/y/yaboot-installer/yaboot-installer_1.0.2_powerpc.udeb



A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 243669@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> (supplier of updated yaboot-installer package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
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Date: Thu,  2 Dec 2004 19:35:33 +0000
Source: yaboot-installer
Binary: yaboot-installer
Architecture: source powerpc
Version: 1.0.2
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Debian Install System Team <debian-boot@lists.debian.org>
Changed-By: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
Description: 
 yaboot-installer - Install yaboot on a hard disk (udeb)
Closes: 243669
Changes: 
 yaboot-installer (1.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
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   * Colin Watson
     - Install to prep-boot partitions on chrp (closes: #243669).
   * Updated translations:
     - Arabic (ar.po) by Ossama M. Khayat
     - Catalan (ca.po) by Jordi Mallach
     - Finnish (fi.po) by Tapio Lehtonen
     - Italian (it.po) by Stefano Melchior
     - Romanian (ro.po) by Eddy Petrisor
     - Russian (ru.po) by Russian L10N Team
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