On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 11:06:54AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 11:00:21AM +0200, maximilian attems wrote: <snipp> > > nono, not debconf please. > > Why not debconf ?
useless user intervention, useless work for translators. not portable beyond Debian unless carefully done. <snipp> > > the idea is to backup on an update call any initramfs > > that is older than a certain time, lets say 6h or maybe 24h > > thus not created while upgrading mdadm, udev, usplash, cryptsetup or > > so together. > > This will not guarantee you that you backup the right one, and doesn't work in > coordination with the bootloaders. > > > will be in 0.81 update-initramfs. > > Ok, but i think it is a partial solution and misses the complete problem. no but thanks for your pointer. so keeping a back up wile running is a good idea, dpkg.bak. if there exists no young .bak it will be saved there. so powercuts are catches for block based bootloaders too and more modern bootloaders find a .bak that has a known old state, presumed good. regards -- maks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]