[Debootloaders-yaboot] Bug#580455: #580455 yabootconfig does the correct thing, your yaboot.confmust be modified by something else

[Jeroen Diederen]

I have seen the same problem. It is a major problem for the existence of

Squeeze/PPC.



Op 16/9/2010 schreef "Gunther Furtado" <gunfurtado at gmail.com>:



>2010/9/16 Benjamin Cama <benoar at free.fr>:

>> Hi,

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>> I just found by looking around that yabootconfig, the script used by the

>> yaboot package (very important distinction) to generate /etc/yaboot.conf

>> actually _knows_ how to handle LABEL and UUID; see

>> http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/debootloaders/trunk/yaboot/ybin/yabootconfig . 
Furthermore, the yaboot package didn't change in 4 years, so everything is "c
orrect" in yaboot !

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>> But, as we recently saw again on the debian-ppc ML (see

>> http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2010/09/msg00013.html ) _some_

>> script from _some other_ package does modify /etc/yaboot.conf ! And add

>> spaces (very wrong) and does not interpret labels/uuids. The only other

>> script I know that generates yaboot.conf is the postinst one in the

>> yaboot-installer udeb (from the debian-installer) but I don't see how it

>> could add spaces, looking at its code.

>>

>> So, that's now 3 people including you that stumble upon this, but this

>> doesn't come from yaboot. So, could you please join the _full_ yaboot te

>> see if the program that generates it leaves some traces, and please tell

>> if you think you have any particular package installed that could affect

>> that. I Cc the list, too, in case someone could look at that.

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>four! or am I on the list yet?

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>> Thanks,

>> benjamin

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