Bug#741656: grub-common: grub-mkrescue lost its -J flag, d-i now FTBFS on kfreebsd-*

[Colin Watson]

On Sat, Mar 15, 2014 at 02:22:05AM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> Cyril Brulebois <kibi at debian.org> (2014-03-15):
> > so there are some grub-* packages used in debian-installer's build-deps,
> > and grub-common is among them, since grub-mkrescue is used on kfreebsd-*.
> > It apparently lost its -J flag, making debian-installer FTBFS on those
> > architectures. Excerpt from a daily build log after 2014-03-10:
> > | # Create the ISO with Joliet extensions, needed for win32-loader.ini
> > | grub-mkrescue --output=./tmp/netboot-9/mini.iso ./tmp/netboot-9/cd_tree -J
> > | grub-mkrescue: invalid option -- 'J'
> > | Try 'grub-mkrescue --help' or 'grub-mkrescue --usage' for more information.
> > | make[2]: *** [arch_miniiso] Error 64
> 
> That this option gets rejected isn't entirely surprising given we
> previously had a pass-through for unknown options:

Right.  Can you try "-- -J" instead?  (We've talked about changing the
behaviour back upstream, but the thread petered out a bit and I don't
believe it's done yet.)

> [BTW the tag for -7 isn't to be found in the git repository right now.]

Sure is, it's just called debian/2.02.beta2-7 because git.

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at debian.org]