Package: kernel-package Version: 11.015 Severity: important
Building a kernel package with make-kpkg for kernels >=2.6.27 results in including some files in the package that are put in /lib/firmware. For example: (2.6.28 .deb contents) drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2008-10-12 15:45 ./lib/firmware/ drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2008-10-12 15:45 ./lib/firmware/yamaha/ -rw-r--r-- root/root 12288 2008-10-12 15:45 ./lib/firmware/yamaha/ds1_ctrl.fw -rw-r--r-- root/root 128 2008-10-12 15:45 ./lib/firmware/yamaha/ds1_dsp.fw -rw-r--r-- root/root 12288 2008-10-12 15:45 ./lib/firmware/yamaha/ds1e_ctrl.fw The next kernel (2.6.29) package will also have those files in it. So there will be two .deb files with the same files in /lib/firmware. This makes it impossible to install a new kernel and keep the old one installed in the system. This actually happened with kernels 2.6.27 and 2.6.28. Perhaps /lib/firmware files should be a different package (linux-kernel-firmware-2.6.28) etc. Most probably there isn't any problem having kernel 2.6.27 with firmware from 2.6.28 (etc... etc...). Also, the kernel-firmware may be a non-free package (per debian policy ?). I see that this bug is also mentioned as ubuntu bug #256983 (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kernel-package/+bug/256983) which includes a on-liner patch for installing the firmware in /lib/firmware/<version> -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.28-v2-v (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages kernel-package depends on: ii binutils 2.18.1~cvs20080103-7 The GNU assembler, linker and bina ii debianutils 2.30 Miscellaneous utilities specific t ii dpkg 1.14.23 Debian package management system ii dpkg-dev 1.14.23 Debian package development tools ii file 4.26-1 Determines file type using "magic" ii gcc [c-compiler] 4:4.3.2-2 The GNU C compiler ii gcc-4.1 [c-compiler 4.1.2-23 The GNU C compiler ii gcc-4.2 [c-compiler 4.2.4-4 The GNU C compiler ii gcc-4.3 [c-compiler 4.3.2-1 The GNU C compiler ii gettext 0.17-4 GNU Internationalization utilities ii make 3.81-5 The GNU version of the "make" util ii module-init-tools 3.4-1 tools for managing Linux kernel mo ii perl 5.10.0-18 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction ii po-debconf 1.0.15 manage translated Debconf template ii util-linux 2.13.1.1-1 Miscellaneous system utilities Versions of packages kernel-package recommends: ii bzip2 1.0.5-1 high-quality block-sorting file co ii libc6-dev [libc-dev] 2.7-16 GNU C Library: Development Librari Versions of packages kernel-package suggests: pn docbook-utils <none> (no description available) ii e2fsprogs 1.41.3-1 ext2/ext3/ext4 file system utiliti pn libdb3-dev <none> (no description available) pn libncurses-dev <none> (no description available) pn linux-initramfs-tool <none> (no description available) pn linux-source | kernel-source <none> (no description available) pn xmlto <none> (no description available) -- debconf-show failed -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
