Package: kernel-package Version: 12.033 Severity: important
generation of initrd is now handled by scripts in /etc/kernel. whoch have to be set up on the host, teh kernel ist to be installed. This is totaly broken. Needing an initrd or not, is a property of the kernel, not of the system the kernel get's installed. So it should be configured on a per-kernel basis and the configuration should be packaged with the kernel. At the moment it is configured on a per-host basis und “packaged” with the host. The effect is: * if the kernel needs an initrd and the install-host is not set up for initrd-generation the initrd is missing and has to be generated per hand. * if the kernel does not need an initrd and the system is set up for initrd-generation the initrd is generated and update-grub adds an initrd-line into menu.conf. make-kpkg should generate packages that can be installed on a system without needing manual chekup and interaction. In short they should behave like the Debian-kernel-packages. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages kernel-package depends on: ii binutils 2.20-6 The GNU assembler, linker and bina ii build-essential 11.4 Informational list of build-essent ii debianutils 3.2.2 Miscellaneous utilities specific t ii file 5.04-1 Determines file type using "magic" ii gettext 0.17-9 GNU Internationalization utilities ii make 3.81-7 An utility for Directing compilati ii module-init-tools 3.12~pre1-1 tools for managing Linux kernel mo ii po-debconf 1.0.16 tool for managing templates file t ii util-linux 2.16.2-0 Miscellaneous system utilities Versions of packages kernel-package recommends: ii cpio 2.10-1 GNU cpio -- a program to manage ar Versions of packages kernel-package suggests: pn btrfs-tools <none> (no description available) ii bzip2 1.0.5-4 high-quality block-sorting file co ii docbook-utils 0.6.14-1.1 Convert Docbook files to other for ii e2fsprogs 1.41.10-1 ext2/ext3/ext4 file system utiliti ii grub-legacy [grub] 0.97-59 GRand Unified Bootloader (Legacy v ii initramfs-tools [linux-in 0.93.4 tools for generating an initramfs pn jfsutils <none> (no description available) ii libncurses5-dev [libncurs 5.7+20090803-2 developer's libraries and docs for pn linux-source | kernel-sou <none> (no description available) ii mcelog 1.0~pre1-1 x86-64 Machine Check Exceptions co pn oprofile <none> (no description available) pn pcmciautils <none> (no description available) ii ppp 2.4.4rel-10.1 Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) - da ii procps 1:3.2.8-7 /proc file system utilities pn quota <none> (no description available) pn reiserfsprogs <none> (no description available) pn squashfs-tools <none> (no description available) ii udev 151-2 /dev/ and hotplug management daemo pn xfsprogs <none> (no description available) ii xmlto 0.0.23-2 XML-to-any converter -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
