On Jun 05, Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> wrote: > The postinst script for linux-image-* behaves differently on fresh > installation vs upgrade. For a fresh installation, it updates the > default symlinks /vmlinuz and /initrd.img to point to the new kernel > and initramfs versions. On upgrade it generally doesn't. BTW, can we remove these? At least on x86 they should not be useful anymore since lilo has bit rotten. > I've been rewriting and simplifying the scripts, and in my testing I > realised that if a package is installed, removed and installed a second > time it sees the second installation as an upgrade - which I think is > incorrect. It currently detects an upgrade based on whether the second > argument to the postinst script is non-empty, and that's defined as > 'the mostly recently configured version'. This is what all my packages do as well. -- ciao, Marco
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