On Sat, May 23 2009, Bob Skaroff wrote:
> I don't find the explanation in the man page for make-kpkg adequate.
Then this is an excellent opportunity to improve the
documentation for all users. Improvements gratefully accepted.
> 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.
This is fine. Perhaps there is some value in learning how to
tailor kernel image installations to your liking?
> The man page needs to be more specific.
In what way, exactly?
> 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.
Sure. But since I do not fit that demographic, I am perhaps not
the best person to attempt to enhance the documentation in that manner.
> 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.
Well, it depends. There are a slew of post install example
scripts shipped i the package (and not all can be installed
simultaneously, since some of them do the same job, and often
incompatibly -- like the yaird and inintramfs-tools compatible
scripts).
Or you can write your own, based on the examples. All my scripta
are called manoj-<somethihng>, for instance.
> not "arrange to convey".
Well, I thought I had covered this in the README.gz file, but
perhaps you can suggest improvements.
manoj
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