Control: severity -1 normal I'm realising that vmdebootstrap currently picks "linux-image-armhf" by default on armhf, which doesn't exist, so raising the severity.
On 2015-02-03, Neil Williams wrote: > On Tue, 03 Feb 2015 09:04:19 -0800 > Vagrant Cascadian <vagr...@debian.org> wrote: >> For Jessie systems at least, the default kernel for armhf should be >> set to armmp. Attached should be a patch to make this the default >> behavior, and a second patch to remove explicitly setting the kernel >> variant for several examples, which would be redundant. > > The patch to vmdebootstrap itself should check for the distribution > specified - possibly using python-distro-info. > > Something like: > > from distro_info import DebianDistroInfo > suites = DebianDistroInfo() > if distro == 'wheezy' or suites.codename(distro) == 'wheezy': > > (There'll also need to be a change to the manpage & README as this > would affect people running vmdebootstrap from git but I don't need a > patch for that.) That seems a bit overkill to me, as there is no sane default on a wheezy system. Always defaulting to linux-image-armmp for armhf works for jessie, testing, sid and unstable... and seems better than always defaulting to an invalid kernel package unless the user manually specifies the right one. >> FWIW, cubietruck could probably default to linux-image-armmp-lpae >> rather than the default, though should be compatible with >> linux-image-armmp. > > Defaults get a bit awkward for ARMv7, so I'm happy to keep that as > --no-kernel --package=linux-image-armmp-lpae in the cubietruck example. I don't think it currently specifies the armmp-lpae variant, it currently specifies the armmp variant in the cubietruck example. I only mentioned it because you currently have three examples all specifying the same kernel, which wouldn't need to if it used a sane default, although the cubieboard could maybe be changed to use a more specific kernel. > It's not as if cubietruck is going to not need the other options and > customisations. It would be so much easier if every ARMv7 board used > the same serial port but they all have their own... Admittedly, having to specify --no-kernel in order to specify the desired kernel is a bit confusing: --no-kernel --package=linux-image-VARIANT I did work on some patches to specify a kernel with --kernel=package, but that's maybe getting too far off-topic for this bug... live well, vagrant
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