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Package: kernel-package
Version: 12.021
Severity: important
I have built linux-2.6.32-rc3 with kernel-package and it does not build
an initrd when the linux-image package is installed.
$ make-kpkg --rootcmd fakeroot --initrd kernel_image kernel_debug
kernel_headers --subarch pentiumm --arch-in-name
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.3
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (900, 'stable'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-rc3 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL
set to en_US.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages kernel-package depends on:
ii binutils 2.18.1~cvs20080103-7 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii build-essential 11.4 Informational list of build-essent
ii debianutils 2.30 Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii file 4.26-1 Determines file type using "magic"
ii gettext 0.17-4 GNU Internationalization utilities
ii make 3.81-5 The GNU version of the "make" util
ii module-init-tools 3.4-1 tools for managing Linux kernel mo
ii po-debconf 1.0.15 manage translated Debconf template
ii util-linux 2.13.1.1-1 Miscellaneous system utilities
Versions of packages kernel-package recommends:
ii cpio 2.9-13 GNU cpio -- a program to manage ar
Versions of packages kernel-package suggests:
ii bzip2 1.0.5-1 high-quality block-sorting file co
pn docbook-utils <none> (no description available)
ii e2fsprogs 1.41.3-1 ext2/ext3/ext4 file system utiliti
ii initramfs-tools [linux-in 0.92o tools for generating an initramfs
pn libdb3-dev <none> (no description available)
ii libncurses5-dev [libncurs 5.7+20081213-1 developer's libraries and docs for
pn linux-source | kernel-sou <none> (no description available)
pn xmlto <none> (no description available)
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Hi,
This is expected and widely documented behaviour. Have you
populated /etc/kernel/*.d directories on the target machine? (the
latest initramfs-tools has a script that it installs that does the job
too, I think)
,----[ Manual page make-kpkg(1) ]
| --initrd
| If make-kpkg is generating a kernel-image package, arrange to
| convey to the hook scripts run from the post installation
| maintainer scripts that this image requires an initrd, and that
| the initrd generation hook scripts should not short circuit
| early. Without this option, the example initramfs hook scripts
| bundled in with kernel-package will take no action on
| installation. The same effect can be achieved by setting the
| environment variable INITRD to any non empty value. Please note
| that unless there are hook scripts in /etc/kernel or added into
| the hook script parameter of /etc/kernel-img.conf. no initrd
| will be created (the bundled in example scripts are just
| examples -- user action is required before anything happens).
`----
,----[ /usr/share/doc/kernel-package/README.gz ]
| gotchas. Note that you will have to arrange for the actual
| initrd creation to take place by installing a script like
| /usr/share/kernel-package/examples/etc/kernel/post{inst,rm}.d/yaird
| or, alternately,
| /usr/share/kernel-package/examples/etc/kernel/post{inst,rm}.d/initramfs
| into the corresponding directories /etc/kernel/post{inst,rm}.d,
| since the kernel-postinst does not arrange for the initramfs
| creator to be called. You can thus select your own;
| initramfs-tools or yaird.
|
| Let me repeat:
| Since nothing is created automatically. you need to provide a hook
| script for things to happen when you install the kernel image
| package. The user provides such scripts. For example, to invoke
| mkinitramfs, I did:
| --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
| cp /usr/share/kernel-package/examples/etc/kernel/postinst.d/yaird \
| /etc/kernel/postinst.d/
| cp /usr/share/kernel-package/examples/etc/kernel/postrm.d/yaird \
| /etc/kernel/postrm.d/
| --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
|
| Or, alternately, you could do:
| --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
| cp /usr/share/kernel-package/examples/etc/kernel/postinst.d/initramfs \
| /etc/kernel/postinst.d/
| cp /usr/share/kernel-package/examples/etc/kernel/postrm.d/initramfs \
| /etc/kernel/postrm.d/
| --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
|
| These scripts above to nothing unless the corresponding
| packages are installed (initramfs-tools or yaird), so you could
| potentially cp both over -- as long as you never install both yaird
| and initramfs-tools at the same time.
|
| To run grub, I have in /etc/kernel-img.conf:
| --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
| postinst_hook = update-grub
| postrm_hook = update-grub
| --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
|
| You can look at other example in the examples directory:
| /usr/share/kernel-package/examples/ to see if there are other example
| script you want to cp into /etc/kernel -- and you can create your own
| scripts.
|
| For example, if you use linux-headers-* packages to compile third
| party modules so that you do not have to keep the sources directory
| around, you might be interested in:
| --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
| /etc/kernel/header_postinst.d/link
| /etc/kernel/header_postrm.d/link
| /etc/kernel/header_prerm.d/link
| /etc/kernel/postinst.d/force-build-link
| /etc/kernel/postrm.d/force-build-link
| --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
|
| These scripts will try to make sure that the symlink
| /lib/modules/$VERSION/build
| is sane -- that is points to the header packages whether you install
| the image packages first, or the header packages first -- and takes
| care of cleanup when either of the packages are installed.
`----
manoj
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