Daniel Hilst 5d0f6fc50d fix(xcat-core): the Ubuntu ppc64le diskful install stops without grub-ieee1275 ...

A diskful install of Ubuntu on a ppc64el node runs to the bootloader step and
stops. curtin reports "dpkg-query: package 'grub-ieee1275' is not installed"
from dpkg-reconfigure, and the node never reaches the disk it installed.

ubuntu_subiquity_apt_config in xCAT-server/lib/perl/xCAT/Template.pm writes
APT::Install-Recommends "false" for every architecture. curtin installs a
bootloader package of its own for UEFI and for s390x only, so on a PReP
machine grub-ieee1275 reaches the target only as a recommended package of the
kernel image, and that setting removes it.

The apt block now keeps the recommended packages on ppc64el, online and
offline, and is unchanged on every other architecture.

ubuntu_subiquity_pkglist.t renders the block for osarch ppc64el and requires
that it does not disable the recommended packages. Both assertions fail
without this change.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Hilst <392820+dhilst@users.noreply.github.com>

2026-09-12 14:26:09 -03:00

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perl/xCAT

fix(xcat-core): the Ubuntu ppc64le diskful install stops without grub-ieee1275

2026-09-12 14:26:09 -03:00

xcat

feat(Template): render the osimage pkglist into the autoinstall package list

2026-09-11 11:38:15 -03:00