I don't find the explanation in the man page for make-kpkg adequate. I'm afraid that I don't know all the details of package installation and unless there is a significant value add to do so, I probably won't learn them all. The man page needs to be more specific. You should understand that that there are debian users that don't want an ubuntu experience, but don't have the desire to learn chapter and verse on every technical topic. Not everyone is a debian developer. I've been a debian user since 3.0.
I need to know what are the names of the hook scripts and the post-installation maintainer scripts and what changes must be made to them to convey that an initrd is needed. not "arrange to convey". Bob Message #39 <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=528373#39>received at [email protected] (full text<http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=39;bug=528373>, mbox<http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=39;mbox=yes;bug=528373>): *From:* Manoj Srivastava <[email protected]> *To:* Bob Skaroff <[email protected]> *Cc:* [email protected] *Subject:* Re: Bug#528373: kernel-package: no initrd built for linux-source-2.6.29-5 AMD64 *Date:* Fri, 22 May 2009 01:38:55 -0500 Hi, This seems more like a configuration issue, than a make-kpkg bug: ,----[ 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 instal‐ lation | 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/kenel 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). `---- manoj -- Heuristics are bug ridden by definition. If they didn't have bugs, then they'd be algorithms. Manoj Srivastava <[email protected]> <http://www.golden-gryphon.com/> 1024D/BF24424C print 4966 F272 D093 B493 410B 924B 21BA DABB BF24 424C
