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Add dmicode as an explicit dependency
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dmidecode was not being installed on non-x86 platforms, causing "show hardware dmi" to fail on arm64.

As far as I can tell, dmidecode was being pulled in as a dependency of libparted2, which only depends on dmidecode for amd64 and i386.

Apart from "show hardware dmi", there are other instances dmidecode is used, such as generating synthetic mac addresses (https://github.com/vyos/vyos-1x/blob/671d012af37729601d3cdfba65beb1daf68229a3/python/vyos/ifconfig/interface.py#L499) and identifying the virtual machine vendor (https://github.com/vyos/vyatta-cfg-system/blob/16e9d71ffbe4153aaaa23b924b2ebf8ec29715db/scripts/install/install-postinst-new#L213)

show hardware dmi
sudo: dmidecode: command not found

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Why the issue appeared?
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Is it a breaking change?
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Event Timeline

mcbridematt created this task.Dec 14 2023, 3:10 AM
mcbridematt created this object in space S1 VyOS Public.
mcbridematt renamed this task from Add dmicode as an explicit dependency of vyos-1x to Add dmicode as an explicit dependency.Dec 14 2023, 3:15 AM
mcbridematt added a comment.Dec 14 2023, 3:22 AM

vyos-1x: https://github.com/vyos/vyos-1x/pull/2631
vyatta-cfg-system: https://github.com/vyos/vyatta-cfg-system/pull/217

c-po closed this task as Resolved.Dec 14 2023, 5:39 AM
c-po assigned this task to mcbridematt.
c-po added a project: VyOS 1.5 Circinus.
pasik added a subscriber: pasik.Dec 14 2023, 8:59 AM