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has caused the Debian Bug report #1088650,
regarding Bookworm arm64 builds are broken with `--debian-installer live`
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1088650: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1088650
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Package: live-build
Version: 1:20240810
Severity: normal
Tags: upstream, patch
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(Note, I'm using a version of live-build installed with `sudo make
install` that is currently six commits behind git master, however I've
checked the code and this bug should still exist in git master.)
Apparently the grub-efi-ARCH-unsigned packages did not exist in
Bookworm, and only exist in Trixie and later. live-build's
`installer_debian-installer` step seems to be aware of this fact for
amd64 builds and uses an if/then to check if grub-efi-amd64-unsigned is
available before adding it to DI_REQ_PACKAGES. For arm64 builds
however, grub-efi-arm64-unsigned is unconditionally added to
DI_REQ_PACKAGES. As a result, if you attempt to build an arm64 Bookworm
image with debian-installer enabled, the build crashes with `E: Unable
to locate package grub-efi-arm64-unsigned`.
To reproduce the issue on an amd64 machine (since I'm cross-building):
* mkdir lb-test
* cd lb-test
* lb config \
--architecture arm64 \
--bootstrap-qemu-arch arm64 \
--bootstrap-qemu-static /usr/bin/qemu-aarch64-static \
--debian-installer live
* sudo lb build
The build will die on the debian-installer step with the aforementioned
error.
I have not yet tested the following patch, but I think this will fix
the problem:
diff --git a/scripts/build/installer_debian-installer
b/scripts/build/installer_debian-installer
index 6e47246d1..f11b8aa76 100755
--- a/scripts/build/installer_debian-installer
+++ b/scripts/build/installer_debian-installer
@@ -429,7 +429,12 @@ then
arm64)
DI_REQ_PACKAGES="grub-efi-arm64 efibootmgr
grub-efi-arm64-signed shim-signed" # UEFI (required for d-i, includes suggested
packages)
- DI_REQ_PACKAGES="${DI_REQ_PACKAGES} grub-efi
grub-efi-arm64-bin grub2-common mokutil shim-helpers-arm64-signed
shim-signed-common shim-unsigned grub-efi-arm64-unsigned" # UEFI (required by
Calamares)
+ DI_REQ_PACKAGES="${DI_REQ_PACKAGES} grub-efi
grub-efi-arm64-bin grub2-common mokutil shim-helpers-arm64-signed
shim-signed-common shim-unsigned" # UEFI (required by Calamares)
+ # grub-efi-arm64-unsigned was introduced in trixie
+ if [ $(Check_package_available
"grub-efi-arm64-unsigned") -eq 1 ]
+ then
+ DI_REQ_PACKAGES="${DI_REQ_PACKAGES}
grub-efi-arm64-unsigned"
+ fi
DI_PACKAGES="linux-image-arm64"
;;
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 12.8
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500,
'stable'), (100, 'bookworm-fasttrack') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
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