control: tag -1 pending Tue, Jan 02, 2024 at 06:22:21PM +0100, Helmut Grohne wrote: >Hi Emanuele, > >On Tue, Jan 02, 2024 at 03:03:49PM +0100, Emanuele Rocca wrote: >> quite a few firmware packages are missing from today's debian-installer >> ISOs. Among the missing ones: firmware-atheros, firmware-realtek, and >> many others. Some firmware packages such as firmware-ath9k-htc and >> firmware-linux-free are instead present. >> >> Packages correctly included in the ISOs ship firmware files under /lib, >> while those not included use /usr/lib. For example the following is >> included: >> >> firmware-linux-free: /lib/firmware/av7110/bootcode.bin >> >> While missing packages install firmware files under /usr/lib: >> >> firmware-atheros: /usr/lib/firmware/wil6210.brd >> >> It seems likely that tools/generate_firmware_task needs to be patched to >> take usr-move into account. > >Yes, this very much looks like /usr-merge breakage and I fully agree >with the pointers you give. Just reading generate_firmware_task, the >contains_firmware sub immediately jumps into my eyes as the grep will >miss moved firmware packages. It should probably become > > grep ' \\./\\(usr/\\)\\?lib/firmware/' > >(with the double escaping for the target context already applied). > >I happen to not know how to test this though. Quite possibly, this is >not the only issue. Are you able to drive this forward from here?
Already fixed in git, along with another usr-merge issue I found. The next regular build should be fine. Hmm, why didn't this get tagged as "pending" already when I pushed?? -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com Google-bait: https://www.debian.org/CD/free-linux-cd Debian does NOT ship free CDs. Please do NOT contact the mailing lists asking us to send them to you.
