On Sun, 2016-06-05 at 11:29 +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Jun 05, Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> wrote: > > > The postinst script for linux-image-* behaves differently on fresh > > installation vs upgrade. For a fresh installation, it updates the > > default symlinks /vmlinuz and /initrd.img to point to the new kernel > > and initramfs versions. On upgrade it generally doesn't. > BTW, can we remove these? At least on x86 they should not be useful > anymore since lilo has bit rotten.
Unfortunately there are many boot loaders (and custom configurations) that rely on them, not just lilo. But they can be disabled by adding 'do_symlinks = no' to /etc/kernel-img.conf. Ben. > > I've been rewriting and simplifying the scripts, and in my testing I > > realised that if a package is installed, removed and installed a second > > time it sees the second installation as an upgrade - which I think is > > incorrect. It currently detects an upgrade based on whether the second > > argument to the postinst script is non-empty, and that's defined as > > 'the mostly recently configured version'. > This is what all my packages do as well. > -- Ben Hutchings Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. - Albert Einstein
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