[Debootloaders-yaboot] Bug#580455: lastest Sid upgrade breakes yaboot.conf and (maybe) ybin

[Rick Thomas]

Package: yaboot
Version: 1.3.13a-1
Severity: important


The latest kernel upgrade modifies yaboot.conf in bad ways.

1) It puts spaces around the "=" and quotes the argument, which confuses ybin.
	# diff /etc/yaboot.conf.old /etc/yaboot.conf
	9c9,12
	< boot=/dev/hda2
	---
	> 
	> # boot = /dev/hda2
	> boot = "/dev/disk/by-label/bootstrap"
	> 
	12c15,18
	< root=/dev/hda6
	---
	> 
	> # root = /dev/hda6
	> root = "UUID=88a47bea-8c36-4a09-b418-747e2396feb2"
	> 

ybin thinks the space between the "=" and the RHS and the quotes-marks are part of the RHS.
It then says that the file "/dev/disk/by-label/bootstrap" (including the quote-marks) doesn't exist.
If I remove the quote-marks, it still fails, beacuse it thinks the leading space is part of the file name.
If I remove the leading space *and* the quote marks, it gets further... But...

2) Later on, ofpath gets called on /dev/disk/by-label/bootstrap which ofpath is unable to parse.
It says "ofpath: Device: /dev/bootstrap is not supported".

This could probably be fixed by running $boot thru "readlink -f" to canonicalize it,
but that part of ybin is complicated enough that I decided it should be done by an expert.

Hope this helps!

Rick

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-powerpc
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages yaboot depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.10.2-7   Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib

Versions of packages yaboot recommends:
ii  hfsutils                      3.2.6-11   Tools for reading and writing Maci
ii  powerpc-utils                 1.1.3-24   Various utilities for Linux/PowerP

yaboot suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information