On Sun, 2010-09-19 at 10:42 +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: > On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 05:17:12PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > On Sat, 2010-09-18 at 17:57 +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: > > > On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 04:38:36PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > > On Thu, 2010-09-16 at 23:16 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > > > s390-tools, lilo, and elilo are the only bootloaders for which > > > > > Breaks: were > > > > > added in the recent upload. However, there are reports[1],[2] of > > > > > serious > > > > > upgrade failures resulting from not upgrading grub before trying to > > > > > upgrade > > > > > the kernel; and the grub in lenny definitely does not comply with the > > > > > new > > > > > kernel hooks policy (/etc/kernel/postinst.d/zz-update-grub only > > > > > exists in > > > > > the squeeze versions). Is this an oversight, or is there some other > > > > > explanation for why grub was being left in an inconsistent state for > > > > > these > > > > > users? > > > > Official kernel packages have never invoked GRUB except by running hook > > > > commands. > > > Still they are incompatible. This is what breaks is for. > > GRUB would always 'break' when a new kernel package was installed if the > > user or installer didn't set the hook command. There has been no > > incompatible change. > > grub uses a public interface. There is no need for depends in this case. > However if the public interface is changed, it needs to be handled > accordingly.
And the public interface hasn't changed. > > > Also the other architectures are missing. > > No other architectures have an historical default boot loader that used > > to be run automatically. > > Well, a not so quick grep shows that the old k-p happily also called the > following bootloaders: colo, palo, sibyl, vmelilo. Right, these have been broken since we stopped using kernel-package. However palo normally doesn't need to be invoked, and I don't think we need to care about vmelilo. That leaves colo and sibyl (both mips/mipsel). Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.
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