Package: microcode.ctl Version: 1.17-11 Severity: normal I was extremely surprised (i.e disapointed) when I noticed that microcode.ctl had downloaded some stuffs from the internet.
The package description don't document this behaviour. Actually, it's exacly the opposite: Since the package depends on intel-microcode, I assumed the microcode was included! $aptitude install microcode.ctl intel-microcode [..] Setting up microcode.ctl (1.17-11) ... Device /dev/cpu/microcode doesn't exists. Trying to create it Do you have kernel support for microcode? Local version: 20080910 Remote version: 20090330 Downloading a new version of microcode. microcode downloaded sucessfully Applying Intel IA32 Microcode update... done. Applying Intel IA32 Microcode update... done. Setting up intel-microcode (0.20080910-2) ... I beleive that installing Debian should be guaranted to be reproductible (Installing the same distro twice should lead to the same result). Still, I do belleive that update-intel-microcode is a great tool to have. Thanks for µcode, Franklin -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/2 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 microcode.ctl depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.26 Debian configuration management sy ii intel-microcode 0.20080910-2 Processor microcode data file for ii libc6 2.9-4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii makedev 2.3.1-88 creates device files in /dev ii module-init-tools 3.7-pre9-1 tools for managing Linux kernel mo ii po-debconf 1.0.16 tool for managing templates file t ii udev 0.141-1 /dev/ and hotplug management daemo ii wget 1.11.4-2 retrieves files from the web microcode.ctl recommends no packages. microcode.ctl suggests no packages. -- debconf information: microcode.ctl/check-new: true -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
