Bug#505609: loader varialbe in kernel maintainer scripts

2010-06-18 Thread Joachim Wiedorn
Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk wrote on 2010-06-18 02:02: On Thu, 2010-06-17 at 20:37 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: On Thu, 17 Jun 2010 18:11:04 -0400 (EDT), Ben Hutchings wrote: : : And how would one go about setting this loader variable? The loader variable is not documented in the

Bug#505609: loader varialbe in kernel maintainer scripts

2010-06-18 Thread Stephen Powell
On Fri, 18 Jun 2010 04:25:38 -0400 (EDT), Joachim Wiedorn wrote: Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk wrote on 2010-06-18 02:02: On Thu, 2010-06-17 at 20:37 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: And how would one go about setting this loader variable? The loader variable is not documented in the man page

Bug#505609: loader varialbe in kernel maintainer scripts

2010-06-18 Thread maximilian attems
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 10:55:35AM -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: So far, Ben has only agreed to reinstate the historic function of do_bootloader = yes in /etc/kernel-img.conf for Lenny kernel maintainer scripts. It hasn't actually happened yet, but he has agreed to restore its former

Bug#505609: loader varialbe in kernel maintainer scripts

2010-06-18 Thread Stephen Powell
On Fri, 18 Jun 2010 11:51:11 -0400 (EDT), maximilian attems wrote: On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 10:55:35AM -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: As for update-initramfs -u, it *will* invoke lilo if lilo is installed and do_bootloader = yes is specified in /etc/kernel-img.conf, which I highly recommend.

Bug#505609: loader varialbe in kernel maintainer scripts

2010-06-17 Thread Stephen Powell
On Thu, 17 Jun 2010 18:11:04 -0400 (EDT), Ben Hutchings wrote: On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 12:33:58PM -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: [...] I can maybe accept your proposal for Squeeze. But for Lenny, I believe that the maintainer scripts should be changed back they way they were. In other words,

Bug#505609: loader varialbe in kernel maintainer scripts

2010-06-17 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Thu, 2010-06-17 at 20:37 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: On Thu, 17 Jun 2010 18:11:04 -0400 (EDT), Ben Hutchings wrote: On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 12:33:58PM -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: [...] I can maybe accept your proposal for Squeeze. But for Lenny, I believe that the maintainer scripts

Bug#505609: loader varialbe in kernel maintainer scripts

2010-06-17 Thread Stephen Powell
On Thu, 17 Jun 2010 21:02:54 -0400 (EDT), Ben Hutchings wrote: I'm sorry, you're right. Most of the other variables at the top of the postinst script can be overridden by /etc/kernel-img.conf, but not this one. Given that, I think you are right that the 'historical' bootloader setting