Re: Bug#672160: Directory /boot/console-setup

2012-05-12 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 08:04:15PM +0300, Anton Zinoviev wrote: > On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 07:01:20AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > No, you absolutely do *not* need this. The policy rule isn't "on purge, > > remove all config files if the admin hasn't edited them", it's "on purge, > > remove *a

Re: Bug#672160: Directory /boot/console-setup

2012-05-12 Thread Anton Zinoviev
On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 07:01:20AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > No, you absolutely do *not* need this. The policy rule isn't "on purge, > remove all config files if the admin hasn't edited them", it's "on purge, > remove *all configuration files*". All configuration files owned by the packag

Re: Bug#672160: Directory /boot/console-setup

2012-05-10 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On ven., 2012-05-11 at 00:16 +0300, Anton Zinoviev wrote: > On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 09:40:23PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > > Generally the console has to work even before root is mounted, so > > that the user can enter a decryption password if necessary. > > Unfortunately, as far as I know

Re: Bug#672160: Directory /boot/console-setup

2012-05-10 Thread Anton Zinoviev
On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 09:40:23PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > Generally the console has to work even before root is mounted, so > that the user can enter a decryption password if necessary. Unfortunately, as far as I know currently this doesn't work in Debian. Proper wishlist bug reports h

Re: Bug#672160: Directory /boot/console-setup

2012-05-10 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 10:13:39PM +0300, Anton Zinoviev wrote: > On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 07:45:21PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > > > > Maybe I'm missing something obvious, but /boot seems to be a very bad > > choice for the location, simply because it is not available any earlier > > than /var. >

Re: Bug#672160: Directory /boot/console-setup

2012-05-10 Thread Anton Zinoviev
On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 07:45:21PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > > Maybe I'm missing something obvious, but /boot seems to be a very bad > choice for the location, simply because it is not available any earlier > than /var. Ah, you are right. So it seems only /etc is an option. Thanks. Anton Zin

Re: Bug#672160: Directory /boot/console-setup

2012-05-10 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2012-05-10 18:43 +0200, Anton Zinoviev wrote: > [Please preserve the CC to 672...@bugs.debian.org because I am not > subscribed to debian-devel.] > > First the problem in few words. The package console-setup needs an > access to a directory similar to /var very early during the boot process