On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 12:33:58PM -0400, Stephen Powell wrote:
[...]
> I can maybe accept your proposal for Squeeze. But for Lenny, I believe
> that the maintainer scripts should be changed back they way they
> were. In other words,
>
> my $loader = "lilo"; # lilo, silo, quik, palo, vmelilo,
> nettrom, arcboot, or delo
>
> should be set in the maintainer scripts. After all, Lenny does
> not have the generalized hook script environment that Squeeze does.
But it does allow users to configure the loader to be run, using either
the 'loader' or 'postinst_hook' variable.
> I believe that this bug is severe enough to warrant inclusion of the
> fix in stable-proposed-updates.
The fact that the historical bootloader is not automatically run is not a
bug; it is an intentional change. Only the silent failure is a bug.
> >
> > All packages that need to react to kernel installation or removal should
> > install appropriate hook scripts in the directories under /etc/kernel
> > instead of relying on specific support in the kernel maintainer scripts.
> >
>
> Again, I can maybe accept that argument for Squeeze, but not for Lenny.
> However, to be consistent, if you're going to leave "my $loader" set to the
> null
> string in i386 and amd64 kernel maintainer scripts, you should also set
> it to the null string for s390 kernel maintainer scripts.
Yes. I think that's probably a reasonable change for squeeze.
[...]
> The maintainer scripts' support for the historic boot
> loader should be retained, in my opinion, at least for Squeeze. Then,
> if you want to change the design of how kernel maintainer scripts
> work, that can be done in Squeeze+1.
It cannot be 'retained' because it is not there at present. Nor will it
be reinstated.
Ben.
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