Bug#990298: conserver-server: console type 'ipmi' is not recognised.

[Peter Chubb]

Package: conserver-server
Version: 8.2.6-2
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

The manpage for conserver.cf says there is a console type 'ipmi'
to talk directly to an ipmi console.

It looks as if the version of conserver-server shipped with Debian
is not linked with libipmiconsole so this does not work.

I suggest either adding --with-freeipmi to the configure rule, and
build-dep on libipmiconsole-dev and libfreeipmi-dev; or editing the man page
to remove references to this (unsupported) console type.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 11.0
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-7-amd64 (SMP w/32 CPU threads)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_FIRMWARE_WORKAROUND
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_AU:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages conserver-server depends on:
ii adduser 3.118
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.77
ii init-system-helpers 1.60
ii libc6 2.31-12
ii libcrypt1 1:4.4.18-4
ii libgssapi-krb5-2 1.18.3-5
ii libpam0g 1.4.0-7
ii libssl1.1 1.1.1k-1
ii libwrap0 7.6.q-31
ii lsb-base 11.1.0

conserver-server recommends no packages.

conserver-server suggests no packages.

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/conserver/conserver.cf changed [not included]

-- debconf information excluded

[Paul B. Henson]

Please add ipmi support to this package.

[Bjørn Mork]

Package: conserver-server
Version: 8.2.7-2+b1
Followup-For: Bug #990298
Control: tags -1 patch

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Dear Maintainer,

I just created a pull request on salsa adding the requested IPMI support:
https://salsa.debian.org/debian/conserver/-/merge_requests/3

Was going to open a wishlist bug with a reference to it when I noticed
that this bug already existed :-)

Good to see that there are others finding this useful. Please add me
to that list


- -- System Information:
Debian Release: 12.0
APT prefers stable-security
APT policy: (700, 'stable-security'), (700, 'stable')
merged-usr: no
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-10-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages conserver-server depends on:

ii adduser 3.134
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.82
ii init-system-helpers 1.65.2
ii libc6 2.36-9
ii libcrypt1 1:4.4.33-2
ii libgssapi-krb5-2 1.20.1-2
ii libpam0g 1.5.2-6
ii libssl3 3.0.9-1
ii libwrap0 7.6.q-32
ii lsb-base 11.6
ii sysvinit-utils [lsb-base] 3.06-4

conserver-server recommends no packages.

conserver-server suggests no packages.

- -- Configuration Files:
/etc/conserver/conserver.cf changed [not included]

- -- debconf information:
conserver-server/upgrade_800_flag: true
conserver-server/run_as_root: false
conserver-server/port: 3109
conserver-server/listen_address:
conserver-server/base_port:

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