Bug#505609: loader varialbe in kernel maintainer scripts

2010-06-18 Thread Stephen Powell
On Fri, 18 Jun 2010 11:51:11 -0400 (EDT), maximilian attems wrote: > On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 10:55:35AM -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: >> As for "update-initramfs -u", it *will* invoke lilo if lilo is installed >> and "do_bootloader = yes" is specified in /etc/kernel-img.conf, which I >> highly recom

Bug#505609: loader varialbe in kernel maintainer scripts

2010-06-18 Thread maximilian attems
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 10:55:35AM -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: > > So far, Ben has only agreed to reinstate the historic function of > >do_bootloader = yes > > in /etc/kernel-img.conf for Lenny kernel maintainer scripts. > It hasn't actually happened yet, but > he has agreed to restore its

Bug#505609: loader varialbe in kernel maintainer scripts

2010-06-18 Thread Stephen Powell
On Fri, 18 Jun 2010 04:25:38 -0400 (EDT), Joachim Wiedorn wrote: > Ben Hutchings wrote on 2010-06-18 02:02: >> On Thu, 2010-06-17 at 20:37 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: >>> And how would one go about setting this "loader" variable? >>> The "loader" variable is not documented in the man page for >>>

Bug#505609: loader varialbe in kernel maintainer scripts

2010-06-18 Thread Joachim Wiedorn
Ben Hutchings wrote on 2010-06-18 02:02: > On Thu, 2010-06-17 at 20:37 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: > > On Thu, 17 Jun 2010 18:11:04 -0400 (EDT), Ben Hutchings wrote: : : > > And how would one go about setting this "loader" variable? > > The "loader" variable is not documented in the man page for

Bug#505609: loader varialbe in kernel maintainer scripts

2010-06-17 Thread Stephen Powell
On Thu, 17 Jun 2010 21:02:54 -0400 (EDT), Ben Hutchings wrote: > > I'm sorry, you're right. Most of the other variables at the top of the > postinst script can be overridden by /etc/kernel-img.conf, but not this > one. Given that, I think you are right that the 'historical' bootloader > setting

Bug#505609: loader varialbe in kernel maintainer scripts

2010-06-17 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Thu, 2010-06-17 at 20:37 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Thu, 17 Jun 2010 18:11:04 -0400 (EDT), Ben Hutchings wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 12:33:58PM -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: > >> [...] > >> I can maybe accept your proposal for Squeeze. But for Lenny, I believe > >> that the maintai

Bug#505609: loader varialbe in kernel maintainer scripts

2010-06-17 Thread Stephen Powell
On Thu, 17 Jun 2010 18:11:04 -0400 (EDT), Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 12:33:58PM -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: >> [...] >> I can maybe accept your proposal for Squeeze. But for Lenny, I believe >> that the maintainer scripts should be changed back they way they >> were. In other