On Mon, 2010-06-28 at 18:45 +0200, maximilian attems wrote:
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> please get your facts right before spamming the world.
Max, this is rude and unjustified.
Ben.
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On Mon, 2010-06-28 at 11:16 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote:
> On Sun, 27 Jun 2010 22:02:35 -0400 (EDT), Ben Hutchings wrote:
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> > The environment variable DEB_MAINT_PARAMS will contain
> > the arguments given to the kernel maintainer script, single-quoted.
>
On Mon, 2010-06-28 at 22:19 +, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 03:02:35AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > 1. Packages for boot loaders that need to be updated whenever the files
> > they load are modified (i.e. those that store a block list) must install
> > hook scripts in /etc/k
On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 03:02:35AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> 1. Packages for boot loaders that need to be updated whenever the files
> they load are modified (i.e. those that store a block list) must install
> hook scripts in /etc/kernel/postinst.d and /etc/kernel/postrm.d, which
> will be call
On Mon, 28 Jun 2010 12:45:10 -0400 (EDT), maximilian attems wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Jun 2010 03:02:35 +0100 Ben Hutchings wrote:
>> The arguments given to all kernel hook scripts are the kernel ABI
>> version (the string that uname -r reports) and the absolute path to the
>> kernel image.
> On Mon, Jun
On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 11:16:58AM -0400, Stephen Powell wrote:
> > ---
> > 1. Packages for boot loaders that need to be updated whenever the files
> > they load are modified (i.e. those that store a block list) must install
> > hook scripts in /etc/kernel/postinst.d and /etc/kernel/postrm.d, which
Hello William,
perhaps you have read the recent email from Ben (see below). It would be
important to update the lilo package to support these recent requirements
to prepare LILO for Squeeze before it will get stable.
Do you have the intention to update the lilo package to integrate some
scripts f
I took the liberty of adding debian-boot and debian-s390 to the CC
list on this e-mail, since it affects the Debian installer and
the s390-tools package, which contains the zipl boot loader, which
has a design very similar to that of lilo. If this results in some people
getting more than one copy
On Mon, 28 Jun 2010, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> 2. Packages for boot loaders that need to be updated whenever the files
> they load are modified must also install hook scripts in
> /etc/mkinitramfs/post-update.d. Initramfs builders must call these
> scripts using run-parts after they create, update o
I propose the following policy for squeeze and later releases. This
affects all Linux kernel, initramfs builder and boot loader packages,
and the installer.
I regret that this is happening so late in the release cycle, but
currently a kernel update can easily leave the system unbootable and
this
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