Re: Error flashing initrd after kernel update
* Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com> [2008-08-07 16:31]:
> > That would be a policy violation (thou shalt not mess with conffiles of
> > other packages). The correct solution is to add a configuration file in
> > the /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/ dir that overrides the value in
> > initramfs.conf.
>
> I'm talking about debian-installer. Surely debian-installer can
> install a package and adapt the config file for the user.
Hmm, it seems I might be wrong. All the examples I can find of d-i
changing files are not actually conffiles. Can we really not change
conffiles from within d-i? This policy doesn't seem to make sense to
me. Surely d-i should be able to adapt conffiles to the user's
system.
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Martin Michlmayr
http://www.cyrius.com/
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