On Tue, 2010-08-24 at 14:54 +0100, Colin Watson wrote: [...] > Consider building a filesystem image inside a chroot which one is about > to build into a live filesystem image with mksquashfs or something. In > the event that it contains flash-kernel, then the flash-kernel hook > (once such a thing exists; in the meantime, the hardcoded flash-kernel > code in run_bootloader) will write to the host system's flash memory. > (Take another similar example if you disagree with the precise details > of this one; LILO may well have similar properties.) [...]
If the live filesystem image includes a boot loader package with a kernel or initramfs hook, you're already running the risk of breaking the user's machine by installing a boot loader they never wanted. Protecting the build machine only hides the problem. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.
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