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

[Rick Thomas]

Hi Tony,

Did you get these?  Are they useful?  Is there anything I can do (as a  
non-DD/DM) to get them (or something like them) into Sid?

The reason I ask is that it's now not possible to install Sid directly  
on PowerMac hardware, or do an "aptitude full-upgrade" to Sid from  
Squeeze because the yaboot.conf that is constructed by the latest  
kernel package doesn't work with the current ybin.

Thanks!

Rick


On May 25, 2010, at 1:05 PM, Rick Thomas wrote:

> Hi Tony.
>
> Here is ybin with my changes merged into 1.3.14 .
>
> While I was looking around there, I noticed something about the  
> changes between 1.3.13 and 1.3.14 that may or may not be a problem:
>
> The "bootonce" code uses sed.  But a comment in the code that  
> figures out whether mntpoint is on the boot device points out that  
> there is no 'sed' available on the boot floppies.
>
> If boot floppies are a dead issue in 2010, that's OK.  But if we  
> still want to support them we need to be careful about that sort of  
> thing.
>
> For bootonce purposes, I believe sed is unnecessary.  The desired  
> text manipulation can be done directly in dash-compatible shell  
> syntax.
>
> If you'd like, I can work up a proposed patch for that too.
>
> Enjoy!
>
> Rick
> <ybin.new>


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