On Wed, Dec 17, 2025 at 12:38:07PM +0100, Pascal Hambourg wrote: >On 16/12/2025 at 23:38, Holger Wansing wrote: >> Pascal Hambourg <[email protected]> wrote (Sat, 13 Dec 2025 13:03:54 >> +0100): >> > >> > AFAICS partman-prep is still included in ppc64el images, and >> > grub-installer still looks for a PReP boot partition. >> >> I'm curious how this works, since partman-prep is not mentioned in >> https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/debian-installer/-/tree/master/build/config?ref_type=heads >> but you are right, it's included there. > >I have no idea of how udebs to be included in ISO images are selected. I can >only guess that debian-installer picks udebs to be included in d-i initrds, >and debian-cd picks udebs to be included in ISO images. However debian-cd >udeb include lists contain very few packages. Exclude lists are bigger, so >maybe all udebs available for the architecture are included by default ?
There's code in debian-cd (tools/generate_di_list) which will include all the extra udebs unless: 1. they are excluded 2. they are kernel driver udebs for older kernel ABIs -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. [email protected] Dance like no one's watching. Encrypt like everyone is. - @torproject
