Bug#770412: grub-xen: fails to install in a chroot

[Ian Campbell]

On Fri, 2014-11-21 at 04:02 +0100, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> during a test with piuparts I noticed your package failed to install. As
> per definition of the release team this makes the package too buggy for
> a release, thus the severity.

Thanks.

It seems like https://piuparts.debian.org/sid/source/g/grub2.html
doesn't show this result yet, I suppose this was run manually and/or by
some other service? (or maybe there is some lag in the index?). Does
really matter, I just wanted to check the status of the other grub-*
packages.

Looking at https://piuparts.debian.org/jessie/source/g/grub2.html it
seems the test passed for other grub-* packages, e.g. grub-pc and
grub-efi, in the previous release. I'm a bit confused by this since at
least on first glance most of the related code seems to be the same in
grub-xen as in those others.

Is it expected that the chroot in a piuparts test won't have a /dev
mounted? What about /sys and /proc?

I take it there is no piuparts "overrides" in place for the other grub-*
packages?

Anyway, I'll investigate, thanks for bringing this to my attention.

Ian.

> >From the attached log (scroll to the bottom...):
> 
>   Selecting previously unselected package grub-xen.
>   (Reading database ... 8098 files and directories currently installed.)
>   Preparing to unpack .../grub-xen_2.02~beta2-16_amd64.deb ...
>   Unpacking grub-xen (2.02~beta2-16) ...
>   Setting up grub-xen (2.02~beta2-16) ...
>   
>   Creating config file /etc/default/grub with new version
>   Installing for x86_64-xen platform.
>   grub-install: error: cannot find a device for /boot/grub (is /dev mounted?).
>   dpkg: error processing package grub-xen (--configure):
>    subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
>   Errors were encountered while processing:
>    grub-xen
> 
> 
> cheers,
> 
> Andreas
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