Bug#626217: Default /etc/kernel-img.conf should have do_symlinks=no; nothing needs those links now
On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 05:10:42PM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Tue, 2014-02-25 at 16:18 +0300, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> > Hi Ben,
> >
> > Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> (2011-05-16):
> > > On Mon, 2011-05-09 at 17:17 -0700, Josh Triplett wrote:
> > > > Package: base-installer
> > > > Severity: normal
> > > >
> > > > Now that the various bootloaders have hooks to handle kernel
> > > > installation, or otherwise automatically handle all kernels via their
> > > > actual paths, do_symlinks doesn't seem necessary anymore. Please
> > > > consider defaulting it to "no".
> > >
> > > Josh, this is simply not true. Only grub and syslinux create menus of
> > > all installed kernels. I hope to get this changed for wheezy, but can't
> > > promise it.
> >
> > can you please send us an update to see how we stand WRT this bug report?
>
> I haven't done anything about this and don't expect to do so any time
> soon.
>
> I think the GRUB maintainers are hoping to be able to support ~all our
> Linux architectures, so we may at some point be able to stop supporting
> direct loading of the kernel by the stupider boot-loaders. We're not
> there yet, though.
Do the different architectures use different pre-seeds, or different
base-installer configurations? Might it be possible to keep
do_symlinks=yes on architectures where the bootloader requires the
symlinks, while eliminating it on the architectures that no longer need
that?
- Josh Triplett
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