On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 08:10:36PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 01:14:04AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> > I just got a bug report against my powerpc kernels which use as you
> > know the /etc/kernel/*.d scripts, and an installation of this kernels
> > on a woody system failed, because the woody runparts doesn't
> > understand the -v option (but it does understand the --verbose one).
> >
> > Since this is could cause problems in woody->sarge migration, it would
> > be nice to fix it before the release, or let's say early enough that i
> > can rebuild both powerpc kernels with it.
>
> To elaborate a bit, the reason why this affects users upgrading from
> woody even if they haven't done anything strange to their system is that
> if they attempt to upgrade to a sarge kernel-image first, the sarge
> kernel-image packages depend on mkvmlinuz, which ships
> /etc/kernel/post{inst,rm}.d/mkvmlinuz scripts; thus, kernel-image tries
> to run 'run-parts -v' without them doing anything funny to their system,
> and without an appropriate versioned dependency on debianutils being
> declared.
>
> s/-v/--verbose/g certainly seems like the simplest fix.
Could i also add a versioned dependency in the kernel-images to the first
version of debian-utils to have the -v option ? This would mean uploading two
full kernel-images (2.4.27 and 2.6.8) and thus probably around a full 24 hours
of builds and uploads.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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