Bug#496312: base-installer: Should install kernel and extra packages at the same time
On Sunday 24 August 2008, Jérémy Bobbio wrote:
> Now that dpkg supports triggers, base-installer should install the
> kernel and extra packages at the same time.
>
> As triggers are used by initramfs-tools, this would allow us to only
> build the initrd once, avoiding multiple expensive computations on RAID
> installations, for example.
This is nonsense. We don't _have_ "multiple expensive computations" for
RAID etc, as the very first time an initrd is actually generated is when
the kernel image gets installed.
Current order is:
- install mdadm, lvm2 etc.
- install initramfs-tools
- install kernel => generate initrd
During "install extra packages" nothing actually happens as all relevant
packages *have already been installed* !!!
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