Package: kernel-package
Version: 8.119
Severity: important
The current /etc/kernel/*.d mechanism has several features which make it less
than usable :
1) it will run all scripts in /etc/kernel/*.d, thus not allowing the
existence of a per kernel-image version script.
2) furthermore run-partes doesn't allow files of the form foo-2.6.8 (no .
allowed in the script name), can be worked around by changing . to _ though.
3) current scripts only seem to pass the version, and is thus not compatible
with the postinst_hook format.
To solve this, i suggest that kernel-package provided postinsts, in addition
to run-parting the /etc/kernel/*.d directory, also run-parts the
/etc/kernel/*.d/$version directory, for per-kernel provided postinst scripts,
and a second arg be added to --args to conform to the postinst_hook invocation
format.
I would change this code snipplet :
if (-d "/etc/kernel/postinst.d") {
system ("run-parts", "-v", "--exit-on-error", "--arg=$version",
"/etc/kernel/postinst.d") &&
die "Failed to process /etc/kernel/postinst.d";
}
by :
if (-d "/etc/kernel/postinst.d") {
system ("run-parts", "-v", "--exit-on-error", "--arg=$version",
"--arg=$realimageloc", "/etc/kernel/postinst.d") &&
die "Failed to process /etc/kernel/postinst.d";
}
if (-d "/etc/kernel/postinst.d/$version") {
system ("run-parts", "-v", "--exit-on-error", "--arg=$version",
"--arg=$realimageloc", "/etc/kernel/postinst.d/$version") &&
die "Failed to process /etc/kernel/postinst.d/$version";
}
In all three postinst, prerm and postrm scripts. I am not perl fluent, so i
hope the above is indeed correct.
If you could handle this quickly, i want to use this feature in the powerpc
kernel packages, which need to be included in sarge, so it is a matter of some
urgency.
Thanks for your help about this,
Sven Luther
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