A suffix of '-pae' means the package is incompatible, just as '-bigmem' does --- This was a regression in 1.118. It was not caught by the unit tests because there were no test cases for 686-class without PAE!
Ben. debian/changelog | 8 ++++++++ kernel/i386.sh | 5 +++-- 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog index 1379dc2..903389e 100644 --- a/debian/changelog +++ b/debian/changelog @@ -1,3 +1,11 @@ +base-installer (1.119) UNRELEASED; urgency=low + + [ Ben Hutchings ] + * Fix i386 kernel package compatibility check: a suffix of '-pae' means + the package is incompatible, just as '-bigmem' does + + -- Ben Hutchings <[email protected]> Sun, 24 Apr 2011 22:21:08 +0100 + base-installer (1.118) unstable; urgency=low * Team upload diff --git a/kernel/i386.sh b/kernel/i386.sh index 2c79ca5..e4303c6 100644 --- a/kernel/i386.sh +++ b/kernel/i386.sh @@ -111,8 +111,9 @@ arch_check_usable_kernel () { *-"$1") return 0; ;; - *-"$1"-bigmem*) - # Don't allow -bigmem suffix + *-"$1"-bigmem* | *-"$1"-pae*) + # Don't allow -bigmem or -pae suffix, as these + # require extra CPU features ;; *-"$1"-*) # Do allow any other hyphenated suffix -- 1.7.4.4
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