Generic x86_64 OEM-specific packages need manual reinstall

January 09, 20241 min. read

A recent update to the Generic x86_64 device package (device-generic-x86_64-9-r0) will uninstall OEM-specific packages, and manual intervention is required to reinstall the packages that are appropriate for your device:

When building your own generic-x86_64 image with pmbootstrap, the packages will be automatically added with the _pmb_recommends feature with pmbootstrap. The required patches have been merged to pmbootstrap's master branch, but are not in a released version yet.

So if you use a stable version of pmbootstrap to build a generic-x86_64 image, make sure to manually select the packages (e.g. via pmbootstrap install --add).

Related: !4673, patches/48226