Devuan bug report logs - #812
Firmware is not found by kernel anymore as it is moved to /usr

Package: devuan-project; Maintainer for devuan-project is Devuan Developers <devuan-dev@lists.dyne.org>;

Affects: kmod, netcat-traditional, sed, firmware-realtek, linux-headers-6.6.8-amd64, initramfs-tools-core

Reported by: Klaus Ethgen <Klaus@ethgen.de>

Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2023 09:00:01 UTC

Severity: grave

Merged with 813, 821, 823, 826, 827, 828

Done: Mark Hindley <mark@hindley.org.uk>

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From: Klaus Ethgen <Klaus@ethgen.de>
To: Svante Signell <svante.signell@gmail.com>
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Hi Svante,

Am Mi den  6. Dez 2023 um 17:55 schrieb Svante Signell:
> Seems like the simple solution to firmware files moved from /lib to /usr/lib is
> to modify the eudev (udev) rule to search both in /lib and /usr/lib.

That do not work as at boot time, /usr is not always available.

> I have not
> yet found out which program/rule does the actual installation of these firmware
> files. Maybe you know?

Yes, it is in the rules file. it includes dh_movetousr when available.
The firmware itself installs to /lib and that command does explicitly
destroy the package.

Regards
   Klaus

Ps. See my package, I built...
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Devuan bug report logs - #812 Firmware is not found by kernel anymore as it is moved to /usr

Devuan bug report logs - #812
Firmware is not found by kernel anymore as it is moved to /usr