control: tags -1 +pending Hi, On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 07:44:44PM +0100, Andreas Henriksson wrote: > On Sun, Jan 14, 2018 at 08:12:22PM +0100, Helmut Grohne wrote: > > Package: virtinst > [...] > > /usr/share/virt-manager/virtinst/initrdinject.py contains debugfs. > > According to file it is a Python script, ASCII text executable > [...] > > initrdinject.py indeed has code to launch debugfs command inside a > function called _rhel4_initrd_inject. The first thing this function > does is try to determine if we're dealing with a RHEL 4 initrd and > if not bail out (before any use of debugfs command). I assume this > logic is functioning as expected and thus there's no reason to > believe debugfs will ever get launched on Debian, but maybe > that's an incorrect assumption since I have no knowledge on how > to use or even what purpose the tool has. > > https://sources.debian.org/src/virt-manager/1:1.4.3-1/virtinst/initrdinject.py/#L33 > > My conclusion is that this bug report should likely just be closed > without any changes. > > Would be great to hear from maintainers if my assumptions (and > conclusion) makes sense here!
The command checks if the initrd we manipulate is rhel4 (not if it's running on a rhel4 system) so we need a dependency here. Cheers, -- Guido
