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Re: sarge upgrade - linux, grub conflict



On Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at 12:52:11PM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote:
> On 2006-04-17 Bastian Blank <waldi@debian.org> wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at 12:09:27PM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote:
> >>> kernel-package >> 10 uses debconf for the user communication. This
> >>> includes the pre and post scripts specified in /etc/kernel-img.conf.
> >>> update-grub from grub older than 0.97-3 writes informations to stdout,
> >>> which is coupled to debconf and makes it fail.
> >> Can't this be worked around by redirecting the output (where does newer
> >> update-grub send it to?) or by using db_stop?
> 
> > No. Some of the scripts needs debconf.
> 
> Hello,
> At short glance the respective changes in update-grub seem to be like
> this:
> -echo -n "Searching for splash image... "
> +echo -n "Searching for splash image ... " >&2
> i.e. the newer update-grub is simply sending to stderr instead of
> stdout.
> 
> This afaik could be solved be redirecting stdout to stderr in the
> *invocation* of update-grub in the kernel's maintainerscripts.
> 
> But I am sure I am missing something important. ;-)

Please look at the discussion we had with Manoj on this around new year. We
did try a lot of stuff, and the current is the resulting compromise. I doubt
there is another way to handle this.

Friendly,

Sven Luther



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