Re: new lilo package maintainer? (was lilo removal in squeeze or please test grub2)
On Tue, 08 Jun 2010, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-06-08 at 13:39 +0200, Vincent Danjean wrote:
> > On 07/06/2010 17:37, Stephen Powell wrote:
> > > But for a kernel install or reconfigure, it is the responsibility of the
> > > kernel maintainer scripts to invoke the bootloader. See also, for example,
> > > linux-image-2.6.26-2-s390.postinst, where zipl is assigned as the bootloader
> > > on line 38. This really is an "open and shut case", if only I can the kernel
> > > people to actually look at it! Please look at it!
> >
> > If I recall correctly, kernel maintainers have introduced
> > /etc/kernel/post{inst,rm}.d/ in order to avoid to hardcode each possible
> > bootloader in their script.
> > Can't lilo provide a script here ?
>
> It could, but that should be redundant in squeeze since update-initramfs
> already runs lilo.
Not every kernel package needs an initrd.
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