Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> escribió:
Hi Ben,
I think it could be useful to copy the uswsusp configuration when initramfs-tools is installed, except that initramfs-tools is almost always installed first.
Yes. For this reason I made the patch. This patch moves the process to select the resume device from the package installation to the update-initramfs script.
Reconfiguring uswsusp should definitely not affect the behaviour of swsusp; that would be very surprising. I think the configuration should be transferred the other way: uswsusp should copy the resume device and offset from initramfs-tools configuration (if initramfs-tools is installed).
I am not sure about that, but in any case, we need that both packages "interact". I don't like too much the idea of copy the uswsusp configuration *only* in the initramfs-tools package installation, because if the user could have a wrong uswsusp configuration, so the configuration will be wrong forever. About your idea (copy the initramfs-tools configuration), I don't like too much too :-). Currently, uswsusp can configure the resume device. With your idea, uswsusp must not configure the resume device (if initramfs-tools is installed), else the resume device in initramfs-tools and uswsusp could be different and then we continue with these bugs/issues. So, if the user wants to change the resume device, must do it updating the initramfs-tools configuration. We could do these things (to support your idea): 1. initramfs-tools must provide a method to select the resume device and the offset. The resume device won't be read from the /etc/uswsusp.conf file when the package is installed. The user will select the resume device and offset with initramfs-tools, because currently the user can select it now with uswsusp (current behavior). The user will select the resume device when initramfs-tools package is installed (not read the /etc/uswsusp.conf file). 2. The debconf scripts will include the device and offset selection but: 2a. The user will continue using this behavior if initramfs-tools is not installed. 2b. If initramfs-tools package is installed, the debconf scripts won't show the selecion for the device and the offset. They will show a message about the new process (run the initramfs-tools script to select the device) to select the offset and resume device. The user needs run the initramfs-tools script to select the new resume device AND then reconfigure uswsusp again, because the /etc/uswsusp.conf package won't be udpated. I don't like this behaviour, because the user will: 1. Run dpkg-reconfigure uswsusp 2. See the message about select device with the initramfs-tools tool 3. Run the tool to select the new device 4. Run dpkg-reconfigure uswsup to update the config file. The idea about initramfs-tools reads the uswsusp configuration don't have these behavior. If the resume device changes, initramfs-tools script could show a message to the user about that. The user will understand that the resume problems will be related to uswsusp.conf configuration. Because when the uswsusp package reconfiguration calls update-initramfs tools, the user will exec only one command "dpkg-reconfigure uswsusp". IMO, this method is better. More comments are very welcome. Thanks a lot for your reply Ben. kix
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