Package: kernel-package Version: 10.066 Severity: normal Unpacking replacement linux-image-2.6.18-4-686 ... Running postrm hook script /sbin/update-grub. You shouldn't call /sbin/update-grub. Please call /usr/sbin/update-grub instead!
Although my /etc/kernel-image.conf is standard (postrm_hook = update-grub),
this message is displayed because the postrm, rather than using `which` to
see if the program exists, manually looks for unqualified executables in its
own hardcoded path, which has /sbin before /usr/sbin. So it finds the
transitional update-grub first.
I suppose that this could be avoided by, if a nonstandard path has to be
used for some reason (which I can't fathom), at least searching for
it in the standard order (/usr/sbin before /sbin).
--
see shy jo, who always relies on PATH Just Working, and strangely
doesn't get bugs filed against his code about it. :-P
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