On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 11:58:20PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Sun, 20 Aug 2006 02:12:43 -0700, Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> >> - grub-installer would have a change to don't use full paths in > >> kernel-img.conf entries _but_ this one need to migrate to etch > >> together with linux-2.6 2.6.17-6 OR new installations will be > >> broken. > > Could you please expand on this last point? What does "together" > > mean -- both at the same time, or one before the other (which one?)? > > Why does a kernel-img.conf without a full path break older kernels? > Because older kernels checked to see if the postinst_hook > script was executable -- and did not do a path search. So is updating linux-2.6 in testing *before* updating grub-installer sufficient? Thanks, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/
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