Bug#344511: Please create a backup of the old kernel+initrd image when updating
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On Fri, 23 Dec 2005 11:56:44 +0100
Christian Hammers <ch@debian.org> wrote:
> I noticed while upgrading my kernel-image packages to the latest
> update that no backups of the old image are made.
>
> At least for something as critical as kernels it would be nice to
> have a /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.8-2-686.old
> and /boot/initrd.img-2.6.8-2-686.old.
Such backup is relevant only for bootloaders supporting it.
Currently the interaction between bootloaders, ramdisk tools and
kernels is limited to the kernel package postinst routines injected by
kernel-package at kernel build time.
One approach to extend the current kernel packaging logic is for
bootloaders to add scripts below /etc/kernel/postinst.d/
Another approach is to separate such interaction into a separate kernel
install helper package as part of
http://wiki.debian.org/FlexibleKernelHandling
- Jonas
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