Re: Daily Images Fail to Install

On Wednesday 28 November 2007, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> Okay, I broke the ARM images with my Netwinder addition. :(
> /lib/debian-installer-startup.d/S02netwinder-net runs archdetect
> before the debconf data is loaded (I guess in S20templates).
> Unfortunately, S02netwinder-net has to run before udev is started,
> otherwise the udev rule it creates won't become active.

To be honest, I don't see how archdetect requires or should require debconf templates. Are you sure archdetect is the cause? If it is, maybe that is something that could be fixed.

> Can we move S20templates to the front,

I don't think that is a very nice solution. There is something like a natural order of things and this would IMO go against that.

> or is there a way to reload udev after netwinder-net created the udev
> rule?

No idea.

> Or any other solution I cannot think of?

Detect the subarch in a different way (by parsing /proc/cpuinfo directly)?

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