[Yaird-devel] Bug#345067: [powerpc] ide-generic is not built on powerpc, yaird tries to include it and fails

Sven Luther luther at debian.org
Wed Dec 28 19:05:33 UTC 2005


Package: yaird
Version: 0.0.12-2
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable


Hi Jonas and Erik, ...

As already mentioned on d-k, powerpc doesn't build the ide-generic module, and
thus installing a powerpc kernel on pegasos (and probably on chrp and prep
too, since they all use x86 ide controllers) fails with :

Using mkinitrd.yaird to build the ramdisk.
yaird error: Could not read output for /sbin/modprobe -v -n --show-depends
--set-version 2.6.14-2-powerpc-smp ide-generic (fatal)
Failed to create initrd image.

(using powerpc-smp in order to not mess up the running kernel, obviously :)

I feel that the problem is due to the ide-generic fix to bug #341738,
inconditionally trying to include the ide-generic module, even if it was not
built, like this is the case here. A check for the existence of ide-generic
before trying to include it or something such should be a good solution.

I hope to have a patch soon, but given my limited perl knowledge ...

Friendly,

Sven Luther

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
Architecture: powerpc (ppc)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.14-2-powerpc
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages yaird depends on:
ii  cpio                          2.5-1.3    GNU cpio -- a program to manage ar
ii  dash                          0.5.2-5    The Debian Almquist Shell
ii  libc6                         2.3.5-3    GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libhtml-template-perl         2.6-2      HTML::Template : A module for usin
ii  libparse-recdescent-perl      1.94-4     Generates recursive-descent parser
ii  perl                          5.8.4-8    Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 

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