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Bug#431285: marked as done (linux-image-2.6.18-4-686: displays unnecessairy FUD during install)

Your message dated Tue, 3 Jul 2007 00:31:42 +0200
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and subject line Bug#431285: linux-image-2.6.18-4-686: displays unnecessairy FUD during install
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Package: linux-image-2.6.18-4-686
Version: 2.6.18.dfsg.1-12etch1
Severity: important


During installation, the package displays irrelevant and panicky 
information about needed changes in the LILO configuration files 
while grub is the standard debian boot loader.

Detecting if Grub or LILO is the boot loader is easy to do and 
should be done before this unnecessairy information screen is
displayed.

Further more the installer could check by itself if the 
needed changes is already included in the configuration file 
instead of requiring a user to do so.

Ernest ter Kuile.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.21.3 (PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

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On Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 11:17:05PM +0200, Ernest jw ter Kuile wrote:
> On Sunday 01 July 2007, maximilian attems wrote:
> > sure you reported the bug and didn't yet paste the relevant lines
> > that you found to be screaming.
> > otherwise as maintainer you need to pass me a crystal ball :)
> 
> Oops, sorry, crystal balls are out of stock. 

hmm bad news, i'd have ordered a bunch of them :)
 
> Its the third message found in here:
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-image-2.6.18-4-686.templates
> 
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
<snipp>
> <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

agreed, but aboves template comes from kernel-package.
it is the typical overly verbose sort of technical
k-p talk. that is on the way to get reformed.
 
> I don't know about LILO, but for Grub I do not need to configure anything 
> in my boot loader.

well yeah.
 
 
> ernest@home:~/freenet$ cat /etc/kernel-img.conf
> # Kernel Image management overrides
> # See kernel-img.conf(5) for details
> do_symlinks = Yes

not much inside here, you want to add:
do_initrd = yes
warn_reboot = no
postinst_hook = /usr/sbin/update-grub
postrm_hook   = /usr/sbin/update-grub
 
those debconf templates will not change for the already released
Etch, but we plan deep changes for lenny,
so no need to keep the bug open.

anyway thanks for the info
regards

-- 
maks

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