On Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at 12:52:11PM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: > On 2006-04-17 Bastian Blank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at 12:09:27PM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: > >>> kernel-package >> 10 uses debconf for the user communication. This > >>> includes the pre and post scripts specified in /etc/kernel-img.conf. > >>> update-grub from grub older than 0.97-3 writes informations to stdout, > >>> which is coupled to debconf and makes it fail. > >> Can't this be worked around by redirecting the output (where does newer > >> update-grub send it to?) or by using db_stop? > > > No. Some of the scripts needs debconf. > > Hello, > At short glance the respective changes in update-grub seem to be like > this: > -echo -n "Searching for splash image... " > +echo -n "Searching for splash image ... " >&2 > i.e. the newer update-grub is simply sending to stderr instead of > stdout. > > This afaik could be solved be redirecting stdout to stderr in the > *invocation* of update-grub in the kernel's maintainerscripts. > > But I am sure I am missing something important. ;-)
Please look at the discussion we had with Manoj on this around new year. We did try a lot of stuff, and the current is the resulting compromise. I doubt there is another way to handle this. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
