Bug#61229: boot-floppies: lilo.conf refers to /boot instead of /
Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org> wrote:
> I think this was intentional since the new kernel images will do The Right
> Thing (e.g., the same thing that kernel source does) and put symlinks and
> images in /boot. Probably needs to be changed in the kernel-package so
> that it does this by default (I for one am considering doing this for
> sparc by default too).
This is not a good idea as I explained to Karl Hegbloom in #59241. The
reason is that people who used kernel-image packages from slink will have
their system broken by this as their lilo.conf probably expects the link
to be in /.
BTW, the kernel source is only installing under /boot because we (as in
Debian) are telling it to do so via /sbin/installkernel. If that script did
not exist, or did something else, the kernel source would be installing
under / just like kernel-image.
Anyway, the only reason to put the symlink under /boot is cosmetic, and it
causes grief for users upgrading kernel-image packages, therefore I don't
think it's a good idea to change it, especially at this point in time.
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