reopen 380338
severity 380338 wishlist
retitle 380338 please handle the s,/sbin/update-grub,update-grub,g transition 
from here (needed for #361929)
thanks

On Sat, Aug 05, 2006 at 11:18:10PM -0700, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:
>    * Bug fix: "forces absolute paths in /etc/kernel-img.conf *_hook
>      variables", thanks to Robert Millan. I elected not to use the patch
>      provided, since I did not want to blindly trust the PATH variable, and
>      wanted also to change the ignoring of the return value of the
>      scripts.                                               (Closes: #380338).

Nice, thanks.

And wrt this:

> As for #361929, I overlooked that kernel-package also happens to be the most
> appropiate place for fixing the user scripts.  Would you please also add
> something like:
> 
>   sed -i /etc/kernel-img.conf -e "s,\(.*\)/sbin/update-grub$,\1update-grub,g"
> 
> for linux-image-* postinsts ?
> 
> (or whatever the perl equivalent is)

Do you think it could be put in kernel-package as well ?  We could handle the
transition in grub, but then we'd have to work out when do our kernel postinsts
support relative paths, and it's not trivial because of the way kernel-package
is used to generate postinsts in other packages.

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