Hi Joachim! On Fri, 07 Nov 2008 23:05:59 +0100, Joachim Breitner wrote: > Am Freitag, den 07.11.2008, 18:46 +0100 schrieb Luca Capello: >> As I already wrote on that thread [2], the error you get is really >> strange, since the Debian kernel package you are installing does not >> contain anymore the /boot/uImage.bin link. > > I think dpkg will link an existing file “out of the way” before > installing the new files (to be able restore them when something goes > wrong maybe). That’s why it worked after he moved the old uImage.bin out > of the way. Not sure if it will affect upgrades though.
Bingo, you were right, http://bugs.debian.org/bug=315493: On Fri, 15 Jul 2005 22:54:17 +0200, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > kernel-package does not make symbolic links of config-$version; > dpkg does in the unpack phase. So, it is dpkg that does not seem to > support vfat. On Sun, 14 Aug 2005 23:46:52 +0200, Scott James Remnant wrote: > dpkg doesn't, and won't, support non-POSIX filesystems. I firstly thought about a workaround: during install/upgrade, if /boot/uImage.bin and /boot/version exist move them to *.dpkg-bak. ===== debian-gta02:~# apt-get install linux-image-2.6.24-openmoko-gta02 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: linux-image-2.6.24-openmoko-gta02 [...] Unpacking linux-image-2.6.24-openmoko-gta02 (from \ .../linux-image-2.6.24-openmoko-gta02_20080903.git2ea34171-2_armel.deb) ... dpkg: error processing \ /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-image-2.6.24-openmoko-gta02_20080903.git2ea34171-2_armel.deb \ (--unpack): unable to make backup link of `./boot/uImage.bin' before installing new \ version: Operation not permitted dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) [...] debian-gta02:~# ls /boot/ uImage.bin version debian-gta02:~# dpkg -i linux-image-2.6.24-openmoko-gta02_20080903.git2ea34171-3_armel.deb [...] Unpacking linux-image-2.6.24-openmoko-gta02 (from \ linux-image-2.6.24-openmoko-gta02_20080903.git2ea34171-3_armel.deb) ... Obsolete file /boot/uImage.bin found, saving as /boot/uImage.bin.dpkg-bak ... Obsolete file /boot/version found, saving as /boot/version.dpkg-bak ... Setting up linux-image-2.6.24-openmoko-gta02 (20080903.git2ea34171-3) ... debian-gta02:~# dpkg -P linux-image-2.6.24-openmoko-gta02 (Reading database ... 13315 files and directories currently installed.) Removing linux-image-2.6.24-openmoko-gta02 ... debian-gta02:~# ===== However, while this solves the problem for the first time you install a new kernel package version, upgrades still fail: ===== debian-gta02:~# ls /boot/ uImage.bin.dpkg-bak version.dpkg-bak debian-gta02:~# dpkg -i linux-image-2.6.24-openmoko-gta02_20080903.git2ea34171-2_armel.deb [...] Unpacking linux-image-2.6.24-openmoko-gta02 (from \ linux-image-2.6.24-openmoko-gta02_20080903.git2ea34171-2_armel.deb) ... Setting up linux-image-2.6.24-openmoko-gta02 (20080903.git2ea34171-2) ... debian-gta02:~# ls /boot/ config-2.6.24-20080903.git2ea34171 uImage.bin.dpkg-bak vmlinuz-2.6.24-20080903.git2ea34171 uImage.bin version.dpkg-bak debian-gta02:~# mv /boot/*.dpkg-bak . debian-gta02:~# dpkg -i linux-image-2.6.24-openmoko-gta02_20080903.git2ea34171-3_armel.deb Preparing to replace linux-image-2.6.24-openmoko-gta02 20080903.git2ea34171-2 \ (using linux-image-2.6.24-openmoko-gta02_20080903.git2ea34171-3_armel.deb) ... Obsolete file /boot/uImage.bin found, saving as /boot/uImage.bin.dpkg-bak ... Unpacking replacement linux-image-2.6.24-openmoko-gta02 ... dpkg: error processing \ linux-image-2.6.24-openmoko-gta02_20080903.git2ea34171-3_armel.deb (--install): unable to make backup link of `./boot/config-2.6.24-20080903.git2ea34171' \ before installing new version: Operation not permitted dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) Errors were encountered while processing: linux-image-2.6.24-openmoko-gta02_20080903.git2ea34171-3_armel.deb debian-gta02:~# ===== Considering that dpkg itself does not support non-POSIX filesystems and that we want to switch to stock Debian kernels sometime in the future, I propose to officially drop the support for /boot on vfat. Thx, bye, Gismo / Luca
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