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Re: Bug#425050: initramfs-tools: Ask if we should update all initramfses



On Sun, 2007-05-20 at 23:06 +0200, martin f krafft wrote:
> also sprach Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org> [2007.05.20.2102 +0200]:
> > That sounds to me like addressing the wrong problem. Maybe what should
> > be done is that update-initramfs updates *all* the images, whatever
> > happens, but a copy of the kernel and initramfs images used to boot the
> > system as it is at the moment should be kept somewhere and a special
> > grub/lilo/whatever item like "Last successful boot setup" should be added
> > using these.
> 
> I would second this, but I think the two can be implemented
> separately as the initrd should be copied during early rcS and not
> when update-initramfs is called.

esp. since dpkg triggers aren't implemented yet and update-initramfs
might be called a couple times between reboots and thus nuking the
backup....


	sean

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