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

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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Subject: Re: [devuan-dev] bug#812: Firmware is not found by kernel anymore
 as it is moved to /usr
From: Svante Signell <svante.signell@gmail.com>
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To: Klaus Ethgen <Klaus@ethgen.de>
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Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2023 19:57:29 +0100
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On Wed, 2023-12-06 at 18:27 +0100, Klaus Ethgen wrote:
> 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.
> 

Hi Klaus,

Then you have /usr on a different partition, and you need an initrd to fix that.
That problem is separate from eudev searching for files in /lib and /usr/lib.

> > 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.

I did not mean the debian/rules file of firmware-realtek, sorry.

I saw the usage of dh_movetousr in that package in debian/rules, yes. However as
long as the eudev rule file searches both /lib and /usr/lib and you don't have
/usr on a separate partition, you'll be fine (or use an initrd as mentioned
above)

Thanks!

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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