Bug#708204: Upgrade fails with "source_dir doesn't exist. Please specify --target or --directory"

[Colin Watson]

Control: tag -1 pending

On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 12:51:48AM -0400, Matt Kraai wrote:
> Here's a little more information about this bug: grub-yeeloong's
> postinst runs grub-install with no arguments.  This causes
> grub-install to try to autodetect the target based on the output of
> "uname -m".  "uname -m" outputs "mips64" on my Lemote Yeeloong.  This
> causes it to match the "mips"* pattern and sets target to "mips-arc".
> /usr/lib/grub/mips-arc doesn't exist, so grub-install displays the
> aforementioned error and exits.

Thanks for the analysis.  I've added --target=mipsel-loongson for the
next upload.

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at debian.org]