[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#914413: supermin: should at least suggest a kernel package

[Johannes 'josch' Schauer]

Package: supermin
Version: 5.1.19-3
Severity: wishlist

Hi,

when using supermin with --copy-kernel on a system without a kernel
(like inside a container) then supermin will fail with:

> supermin: kernel: looking for kernel using environment variables ...
> supermin: kernel: looking for kernels in /lib/modules/*/vmlinuz ...
> supermin: kernel: looking for kernels in /boot ...
> supermin: failed to find a suitable kernel (host_cpu=x86_64).
> 
> I looked for kernels in /boot and modules in /lib/modules.
> 
> If this is a Xen guest, and you only have Xen domU kernels
> installed, try installing a fullvirt kernel (only for
> supermin use, you shouldn't boot the Xen guest with it).

Since having a kernel image available is required for some use of
supermin, it should at least suggest a kernel package in its
dependencies.

Thanks!

cheers, josch


-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386, armhf

Kernel: Linux 4.17.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages supermin depends on:
ii  apt          1.7.0
ii  cpio         2.12+dfsg-6
ii  e2fsprogs    1.44.3-1
ii  libc6        2.27-6
ii  libcom-err2  1.44.3-1
ii  libext2fs2   1.44.3-1

supermin recommends no packages.

supermin suggests no packages.

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