On Sat, 2014-01-18 at 17:26 +0100, Luca Capello wrote: > Hi there! > > On Sat, 18 Jan 2014 12:02:56 +0100, Luca Capello wrote: > > On Sun, 12 Jan 2014 22:18:51 +0100, Karsten Merker wrote: > >> On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 08:40:29PM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote: > >>> There is obvious precedent for systems with firmware that boots from a > >>> VFAT partition. On EFI systems, starting with ia64 around 10 years ago, > >>> GNU/Linux usually mounts the firmware-supported boot partition at > >>> /boot/efi rather than /boot. > >> > >> I'll talk to Peter Green (one of the people behind Raspbian) > >> about the issue. > > > > Two notes: > > > > 1) first, the Debian bug for /boot on vfat and dpkg is: > > > > <http://bugs.debian.org/315493> > > Wow, digging into the BTS looked at first quite useful, except for the > fact kernel-img.conf (from kernel-package) seems to be dead: > > <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=689753#12> > <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=555093> Most settings in kernel-img.conf are still supported by Debian's official kernel packages: do_symlinks ignore_depmod_err image_dest link_in_boot minimal_swap mkimage no_symlinks postinst_hook postrm_hook preinst_hook prerm_hook use_hard_links The optional actions are not supported by 'make deb-pkg' packages but it is possible to do the same thing using the hook script directories which are supported by all different types of kernel packages (AFAIK). I would like to implement an automatic transition away from kernel-img.conf to hook scripts for jessie. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Quantity is no substitute for quality, but it's the only one we've got.
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