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Re: Bug#271269: grub: /etc/kernel-img.conf hooks should be added by package's post-install script



reassign 271269 kernel
thanks

Good point, although this bug doesn't belong to grub.  I'm reassigning it..

On Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 12:23:32PM +0300, Martin-?ric Racine wrote:
> Package: grub
> Severity: important
> 
> I have been wondering for a long time why the menu.lst gets automatically updated on a single host out of my whole 
> i386 cluster.  The answer seems to be that update-grub won't automatically run whenever upgrading or removing 
> kernel-images, because the following hooks are missing in /etc/kernel-img.conf:
> 
> # Update the GRUB menu
> postrm_hook = /sbin/update-grub
> postinst_hook = /sbin/update-grub
> 
> Given how Debian standardizes on GRUB starting with Sarge, it would be important that GRUB's installation scripts add
> the above lines to /etc/kernel-img.conf automatically, upon installing or upgrading GRUB.  This would be easy to
> implement and would save the end-user a lot of troubles, thus making Debian more user-friendly.

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