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Ben. --- 0. The arguments given to all kernel hook scripts are the kernel ABI version (the string that uname -r reports) and, optionally, the absolute path to the kernel image. If the second argument is missing then the path is either /boot/vmlinuz-$version or /boot/vmlinux-$version, according to architecture convention. The environment variable DEB_MAINT_PARAMS will contain the arguments given to the kernel maintainer script, possibly single-quoted. In a shell script, this variable can be parsed using 'set -- $DEB_MAINT_PARAMS'. Kernel hook scripts may be run under debconf. In this case they must not use stdin and stdout, and should send all output to stderr (fd 2). [Alternately we should change linux-2.6 and kernel-package to do the necessary redirection. Is there any legitimate reason for a hook script to interact with debconf?] 1. Packages for boot loaders that need to be updated whenever the files they load are modified (i.e. those that store a block list) must install hook scripts in /etc/kernel/postinst.d and /etc/kernel/postrm.d, which will be called on installation/upgrade and removal of kernel packages, respectively. Since these boot loaders should be updated as the last step during installation/upgrade and removal, hook scripts for boot loaders must be named using the prefix 'zz-' and no other packages may use this prefix or one that sorts later by the rules used by run-parts. A postrm hook script should warn but exit with code 0 if the boot loader configuration file still refers to the kernel image that has been removed. Packages for boot loaders that can provide a menu of kernel versions should install kernel hook scripts in order to update that menu. 2. Packages for boot loaders that need to be updated whenever the files they load are modified must also install hook scripts in /etc/initramfs/post-update.d. Initramfs builders must call these scripts using run-parts after they create, update or delete an initramfs. The arguments given to these hook scripts are the kernel ABI version and the absolute path to the initramfs image. 3. Initramfs builders must complete their work before returning from the kernel postinst hook script. [initramfs-tools currently uses a trigger to defer this because it can also be invoked twice, but this means it also has to know how to update specific boot loaders. This new requirement will allow boot loader packages to avoid unnecessary updates, as described in the following section.] 4. During a kernel package installation, upgrade or removal, various boot loader hooks may be invoked (in this order): a. A postinst_hook or postrm_hook command set by the user or the installer in /etc/kernel-img.conf b. A hook script in /etc/initramfs/post-update.d c. A hook script in /etc/kernel/postinst.d or .../postrm.d To avoid unnecessary updates, the hooks invoked at step a and b may check whether $DPKG_MAINTSCRIPT_PACKAGE begins with 'linux-image-' and do nothing in this case. 5. Kernel packages must not invoke boot loaders except via hooks. If /etc/kernel-img.conf contains 'do_bootloader = yes' or equivalent, maintainer scripts that previously acted on this must warn that they are ignoring it. linux-base must also warn on upgrade that the default has changed. In squeeze+1, this prohibition extends to initramfs builder packages. 6. The installer must not define do_bootloader, postinst_hook or postrm_hook in /etc/kernel-img.conf. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.
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