On 4 December 2017 at 11:01, Henning Schild <henning.schild@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Am Fri, 1 Dec 2017 18:47:38 +0000 > schrieb Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > >> On Fri, 2017-12-01 at 19:34 +0100, Henning Schild wrote: >> > Am Fri, 1 Dec 2017 16:51:12 +0000 >> > schrieb Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: >> > >> > > On Fri, 2017-12-01 at 15:56 +0000, Henning Schild wrote: >> > > > The debian packages coming out of "make *deb-pkg" lack some >> > > > critical information in the control-files e.g. the "Depends:" >> > > > field. If one tries to install a fresh system with such a >> > > > "linux-image" debootstrap or multistrap might try to install >> > > > the kernel before its deps and the package hooks will fail. We don't usually install kernel during debootstrap. >> > > I assume you're talking about those hook scripts being run while >> > > the packages they belong to are only unpacked? I hadn't thought >> > > about this issue, but it seems to me that those hook scripts >> > > generally ought to be fixed to handle this case properly. Most >> > > of the packages installing hook scripts for kernel packages are >> > > not going to be dependencies of linux-image packages, so it will >> > > never be safe for them to assume their package has been fully >> > > installed. >> > >> > Yes these hook scripts fail when installing the kernel on another >> > system. Indeed we seem to have a case where packages installed on >> > the build-machine cause install-time deps for the package. >> >> Can you give an example? I don't see how that would happen. > > Scripts in /etc/kernel/ will end up as hooks for the kernel-package, if > you do not set KDEB_HOOKDIR. Looking at an example system that pulls in > things like "pm-utils, grub-pc .. initramfs". With this mechanism any > package placing a hook in /etc/kernel can influence the deps. I guess > in practice that is prevented with policies on what these scripts are > allowed to do. This doesn't seem to be the case on my system. And from the bits that handle debhookdir in scripts/package/builddeb, I don't see how this is happening. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
