Re: Various d-i daily build failures: arm64, armhf, riscv64

Cyril Brulebois <[email protected]> Tue, 6 Jan 2026 17:30:33 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.debian.devel.boot,gmane.linux.debian.ports.arm,gmane.linux.debian.riscv
Organization	Debian
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Hi,

Emanuele Rocca <[email protected]> (2026-01-06):
> On 2026-01-06 02:21, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> > For some reason (possibly because of frequent errors while refreshing
> > repositories from Salsa), the daily build overview task was commented
> > out and the overview hadn't been updated since end of last month:
> >   https://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/daily-build-overview.html
> > 
> > I've cronned it back, and logs are published again. It seems we have a
> > few failures right now, namely:
> >  - arm64
> >  - armhf
> >  - riscv64
> 
> Perhaps related to the recently introduced Breaks on armhf, arm64, and
> riscv64?
> https://salsa.debian.org/kernel-team/linux/-/commit/c660788db61eea9d22bc429b987441b05b9302bb

I don't think that's /directly/ related (the fixed package is even in
testing, and it's not listed in build logs AFAICT), but that hinted me
into the right direction I think…

A failure can look like this on arm64:

    make[2]: *** No rule to make target 'tmp/cdrom_grub/lib', needed by 'arm_grub_efi'.  Stop.

Before, that looked like this:

    Searching 'tmp/cdrom_grub/lib' for dtbs compatible with pattern 'google,.*'.

which looks like it comes from depthcharge-tools. That's not used
everywhere though (amd64 and arm64 only, and of course amd64 is not
affected by dtb stuff), so not cc-ing its maintainers.

Checking build/Makefile, we have:

    $(DTBS): $(TEMP_KERNEL)
    …

Under build/config/* we have stuff like:

    DTBS = $(SOME_DEST)/$(EXTRANAME)README
    TEMP_KERNEL = $(foreach name,$(KERNELNAME),$(TEMP)/$(name))
    TEMP_DTBS = $(TEMP)/lib

or in build/config/arm.cfg:

    arm_grub_efi: $(TEMP_DTBS)

or in build/config/riscv64.cfg:

    riscv64_grub_efi: $(TEMP_DTBS)

so this really looks like some side-effect of the dtb move.


Of course it would be easier if ARM/RISC-V porters would have a look,
but the problem is likely in src:debian-installer, which probably need
some config-related updates.

Thanks, Emanuele!


Cheers,
-- 
Cyril Brulebois ([email protected])            <https://debamax.com/>
D-I release manager -- Release team member -- Freelance Consultant

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