Re: Bug#606952: lilo: conflicts with grub[-pc]
Michael Prokop <mika@debian.org> wrote on 2010-12-13 18:18:
> It's better than not having the option to have grub and lilo both
> installed at the same time at all, IMHO. The fact that iff lilo.conf
> is present lilo will be executed can be documented proberly with an
> according warning in for example the long description of the package
> as well as in the README.Debian.
That is an idea.
> Am I right that there's also no configureable option (chmod -x ...
> doesn't count as such) to disable the scripts inside /etc/kernel at
> all? (For example /etc/kernel/postinst.d/zz-update-grub bugs on me,
> see #597084.)
The hook script is an ordinary shell script. We could use a condition:
"exist lilo and is lilo configured" for zz-update-grub, or
"exist grub and is grub configured" for zz-lilo.
But it seems such changes are to late for Squeeze. They concern more
packages.
Have a nice day,
Joachim (Germany)
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