Package: extlinux Version: 2:4.02+dfsg-7 Severity: normal -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1
I was a bit surprised when one of my sid systems automatically reinstalled the new version to /boot/extlinux on upgrade, including overwriting the MBR, without further questions. Looking closer at it, it did so because I initially answered yes to the "Should EXTLINUX be installed to the MBR?" question. I find that behaviour unexpected and dangerous. To me, doing the first time installation after asking a question is something quite different from doing automatic reinstallations on every upgrade. You really do not know whether the first time installation failed and had to be manually fixed, and even worse: You don't know whether I later decided to switch to some other boot loader. Having extlinux automatically reinstalling itself in such a situation is of course bad... I believe either the question need to reflect that it's actually a GO for fully automated reinstalls until you run dpkg-reconfigure extlinux and change your answer, or the logic in the postinst script need to be modified to only install extlinux once. Bjørn - -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (700, 'stable'), (600, 'unstable'), (500, 'squeeze-updates'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages extlinux depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.36.1 Debian configuration management sy ii libc6 2.11.2-10 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib Versions of packages extlinux recommends: ii syslinux-common 2:4.02+dfsg-7 collection of boot loaders (common pn syslinux-themes-debian <none> (no description available) extlinux suggests no packages. - -- debconf information: extlinux/install: false -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk1rqrgACgkQ10rqkowbIsn2lQCcCFXcNyGSrq5SNd/JJoIE2K7O QwQAn2wDpCDDgDmg+ufkbtmmzk6UebRI =jH9R -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
