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- To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
- Subject: linux-image-2.6.20-1-686: Documentation error in kernel-image.conf
- From: martin.ferrari@gmail.com
- Date: Sat, 09 Jun 2007 10:16:22 -0300
- Message-id: <20070609131622.30534.18528.reportbug@katie.damianv.com.ar>
Package: linux-image-2.6.20-1-686
Version: 2.6.20-3
Severity: normal
The default setting for link_in_boot has changed silently to enabled. This is not reflected in the manpage and will disrupt configurations expecting the latest kernel in /vmlinuz (i.e. lilo, kexec). Also the "YESB" string seems like a typo.
--- /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-image-2.6.18-4-686.postinst 2007-03-26 19:42:17.000000000 -0300
+++ /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-image-2.6.20-1-686.postinst 2007-04-24 23:21:33.000000000 -0300
@@ -25,8 +25,8 @@
$|=1;
# Predefined values:
-my $version = "2.6.18-4-686";
-my $link_in_boot = ""; # Should be empty, mostly
+my $version = "2.6.20-1-686";
+my $link_in_boot = "YESB"; # Should be empty, mostly
my $no_symlink = ""; # Should be empty, mostly
my $reverse_symlink = ""; # Should be empty, mostly
my $do_symlink = "Yes"; # target machine defined
-- Package-specific info:
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.21-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages linux-image-2.6.20-1-686 depends on:
ii initramfs-tools [linux-initr 0.88 tools for generating an initramfs
ii module-init-tools 3.3-pre11-1 tools for managing Linux kernel mo
Versions of packages linux-image-2.6.20-1-686 recommends:
ii libc6-i686 2.5-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries [i
-- debconf information:
linux-image-2.6.20-1-686/postinst/depmod-error-initrd-2.6.20-1-686: false
linux-image-2.6.20-1-686/postinst/old-initrd-link-2.6.20-1-686: true
linux-image-2.6.20-1-686/preinst/already-running-this-2.6.20-1-686:
linux-image-2.6.20-1-686/preinst/failed-to-move-modules-2.6.20-1-686:
linux-image-2.6.20-1-686/postinst/create-kimage-link-2.6.20-1-686: true
linux-image-2.6.20-1-686/prerm/removing-running-kernel-2.6.20-1-686: true
linux-image-2.6.20-1-686/preinst/lilo-has-ramdisk:
linux-image-2.6.20-1-686/postinst/bootloader-test-error-2.6.20-1-686:
linux-image-2.6.20-1-686/preinst/initrd-2.6.20-1-686:
linux-image-2.6.20-1-686/preinst/lilo-initrd-2.6.20-1-686: true
linux-image-2.6.20-1-686/postinst/old-system-map-link-2.6.20-1-686: true
linux-image-2.6.20-1-686/prerm/would-invalidate-boot-loader-2.6.20-1-686: true
linux-image-2.6.20-1-686/preinst/abort-install-2.6.20-1-686:
shared/kernel-image/really-run-bootloader: true
linux-image-2.6.20-1-686/preinst/overwriting-modules-2.6.20-1-686: true
linux-image-2.6.20-1-686/preinst/abort-overwrite-2.6.20-1-686:
linux-image-2.6.20-1-686/preinst/bootloader-initrd-2.6.20-1-686: true
linux-image-2.6.20-1-686/postinst/bootloader-error-2.6.20-1-686:
linux-image-2.6.20-1-686/preinst/elilo-initrd-2.6.20-1-686: true
linux-image-2.6.20-1-686/postinst/kimage-is-a-directory:
linux-image-2.6.20-1-686/postinst/depmod-error-2.6.20-1-686: false
linux-image-2.6.20-1-686/postinst/old-dir-initrd-link-2.6.20-1-686: true
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