Bug#594479: when lilo.conf missing and grub in use, postinstall kernel pkg fails

2010-08-29 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 11:14:46PM -0500, Moshe Yudkowsky wrote: Ben, Thank you for your attention to this bug. I have to wonder: let's say I have both grub and lilo packages, and I have in the past used one or the other... how will this new policy play out? I'd think that I'd have to

Bug#594479: when lilo.conf missing and grub in use, postinstall kernel pkg fails

2010-08-28 Thread Moshe Yudkowsky
Ben, Thank you for your attention to this bug. I have to wonder: let's say I have both grub and lilo packages, and I have in the past used one or the other... how will this new policy play out? I'd think that I'd have to make a choice in /etc/alternate, or dpkg configure, rather than have

Bug#594479: when lilo.conf missing and grub in use, postinstall kernel pkg fails

2010-08-27 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Thu, 2010-08-26 at 04:43 -0500, Moshe Yudkowsky wrote: Package: lilo Version: 1:22.8-8.2 Justification: breaks unrelated software The kernel is most certainly not 'unrelated' to lilo. Severity: critical Tags: sid The lilo package is installed but /etc/lilo.conf is missing; at present

Bug#594479: when lilo.conf missing and grub in use, postinstall kernel pkg fails

2010-08-26 Thread Moshe Yudkowsky
Package: lilo Version: 1:22.8-8.2 Justification: breaks unrelated software Severity: critical Tags: sid The lilo package is installed but /etc/lilo.conf is missing; at present I use grub. In the latest update of lilo, I can no longer install kernel updates, as seen in the following output: