Re: nslu2 kernel upgrade fails without initramfs-tools

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Cc: Tim Froidcoeur <tim.froidcoeur@googlemail.com>
Subject: Re: nslu2 kernel upgrade fails without initramfs-tools
From: Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com>
Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2008 23:10:59 +0200
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* Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl> [2008-04-20 23:03]:
> Well, unless prevented from doing so by dependencies, users are able to
> switch after the installation :-)

Yeah...

> Also, when installing in expert mode, the installer does offer the choice.

The postinst of the flash-install udeb explictly installs
initramfs-tools.

> As flash-kernel seems to rely on an initramfs hook script this does
> indeed seem like a bug.

Yep, which is why I added it in SVN.
-- 
Martin Michlmayr
http://www.cyrius.com/

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