[Piuparts-devel] Bug#873733: Bug#873733: RFC: whitelist isa-support to allow it to abort installation?

[Adam Borowski]

On Sat, Dec 02, 2017 at 09:30:32PM +0100, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> On 2017-12-02 21:26, Adam Borowski wrote:
> > On Sat, Dec 02, 2017 at 08:32:49PM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote:
> >> I personally think that package should not exist, I can't see a way in
> >> which depending on it wouldn't be a RC bug.
> > 
> > The above said, I have other battles to fight.  If the Release Team agrees
> > that this package should not exist, you know how to file a RM.  But for now,
> > I believe that, in the absence of a better implemented solution, this one
> > would be adequate for Buster if no one acts otherwise.
> 
> Is there a possibility to preseed isa-support to be a no-op?

Currently the documented way is via an env var
(IGNORE_ISA=any_non_empty_string), but anything else would be easy to add.


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