Subject: bug#41120: uvesafb service is unsupported on aarch64

From: Mathieu Othacehe <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 07 May 2020 09:06:21 +0200

Hello Efraim,

> the uvesafb-service which was added to the installation image isn't
> supported on aarch64 (or probably any non-x86 system) and causes the
> creation of an installation image to fail.

Thanks for reporting. There's this small snippet in uvesafb-service:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
  (or (not (and (string-suffix? "linux-gnu" %host-type)
                (or (string-prefix? "x86_64" %host-type)
                    (string-prefix? "i686" %host-type))))
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

which must then fail? Do you have a specific error message?

Thanks,

Mathieu