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Package: extlinux
Version: 2:4.00+dfsg-1
Severity: minor
Hi,
I think the extlinux package should - depending on the answer to the debconf
question - rewrite the MBR on every major package upgrade.
Cheers,
Fabian
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (501, 'unstable'), (101, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages extlinux depends on:
ii libc6 2.11.2-2 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
Versions of packages extlinux recommends:
ii syslinux-common 2:4.00+dfsg-1 Kernel loaders for FAT, ext2/3/4,
pn syslinux-themes-debian <none> (no description available)
extlinux suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
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On 07/06/2010 01:00 PM, Fabian Greffrath wrote:
> Seems so, I must have missed the debconf question.
let's close it then.
> Maybe the default should be set to "true"?
no, never.
since that would a) mean that the bootloader would be automatically
installed eventhough you don't want it to use for your main system (e.g.
because you're building an live image with extlinux)
and b) extlinux doesn't support all use cases yet (e.g. no lvm support),
and the automatic installation doesn't support yet all use cases too
(e.g. one needs to manually pass --raid to extlinux-install when using
raid). in all these situations, having the default to yes would make
users systems unbootable.
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