Comment 27 for bug 1918427
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| dann frazier (dannf) wrote Re: [Bug 1918427] Re: curtin: install flash-kernel in arm64 UEFI unexpected | #27 |
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On Wed, Mar 17, 2021 at 4:56 PM Ryan Harper <email address hidden> wrote:
>
> I still don't understand:
>
> 1) why does which not find flash-kernel if it's present in the ephemeral image (meaning it will also be present in the target filesystem
> 2) What is the problem with flash-kernel such that you need to dpkg-divert it?
>
> Generally, we do not want to include paths to binaries; we install
> Ubuntu and Centos, and possibly other distros which may not have the
> same path to this tools so I would like to understand what's not working
> to understand why we're hardcoding paths to binaries for dpkg-divert.
In my POC patch, it is because we need to divert flash-kernel before
it is installed, *just in case* it gets installed as a dependency of
some other package (in our case it happened due to a kernel Recommends
relationship). We therefore can't use `which` to look up the path...
unless we continue to always install f-k in the ephemeral for the sole
purpose of looking up its path... but that seems to making assumptions
as well - i.e. that the ephemeral OS has the same paths as the target
OS.