Merge lp:~asac/linaro-seeds/lp670711 into lp:~linaro-maintainers/linaro-seeds/linaro.maverick

[Alexander Sack]

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

Per Loïc, these packages belong in the hwpack, not in the head images. I don't want to see us flip-flopping on this - we need to come to some kind of consensus about what the right way is to solve this.

review: Disapprove

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

we have to wait for loic then, because i think there is a miscommunication along the line here.

[Loïc Minier (lool)]

I'm not sure whether Steve is referring to bootloaders/kernels being pulled in the rootfs or not.

See discussion in bug #669591 for the rationale being not using dependencies from the kernel package to bootloaders.

The choice of a kernel and a bootloader are independent and are also independent of the choice of the software you want to run with it; I don't want the kernel to depend on the bootloader, I don't want headless to depend on a board specific package.

Now if we assume all Linaro boards are going to use u-boot, it would seem that it kind of makes sense to pull in the stuff like flash-kernel and uboot-mkimage at the seed level, but thinking about it a bit, it is not too nice.

Some use cases for not installing these packages: I don't want for flash-kernel to run when I install a kernel update in a NFS root, I don't want flash-kernel to run when creating an image on an armel buildd. There are ways to prevent that from happening, but if we can avoid flash-kernel in the first place, we should.

I'm not sure if there is any disadvantage in putting that in the hwpacks instead?

Unmerged revisions

29. By Alexander Sack on 2010-11-04

add devio, flash-kernel, uboot-mkimage as recommends to linaro-headless seed (see lp:670711)

=== modified file 'linaro-headless'
--- linaro-headless	2010-08-24 01:13:03 +0000
+++ linaro-headless	2010-11-04 15:31:27 +0000
@@ -12,4 +12,7 @@
 == Linaro Headless ==
 
  * (chessy-overlay-minimal)			# ships branding and auto login serial/console feature
+ * (flash-kernel)				# see lp:670711
+ * (devio)					# see lp:670711
+ * (uboot-mkimage)				# see lp:670711