Re: Bug#362064: udev: udev tries to write to an installed, working initrd without asking
On 13 Apr 2006, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> On Apr 13, Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> wrote:
>
>> Hmm, it is true I did not check the postinst; I just saw that error
>> message _after_ I had gotten initramfs to install by hacking
>> /var/lib/dpkg/info/initramfs-tools.postisnt. What exactly was
>> trying to modify my boot mechanism without asking me?
> initramfs-tools
>
> (Which by default *should* update the initramfs because the new udev
> may have new bug fixes and having the same version in both places is
> a good idea anyway.)
If the innitramfs must be updated for correct functioning of
the machine, then by all means we should do so. However, we should
not try to sneak in such changes behind the installers back; ideally,
there should be a debconf question asked (perhaps in preinst) which
tells the user what is to happen, and allows the user to back out of
installation if changing the booting mechanism is too risky.
It would have allowed me to mount /boot rw, for example.
manoj
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