Bug#493863: firmware-bnx2: doesn't rebuild all initrds
Package: firmware-bnx2
Version: 0.4+etchnhalf.1
Severity: important
I installed the etchnhalf kernel, rebooted only to find out that I had
not network, booted the old kernel again and installed firmware-bnx2:
| thelma:~# apt-get install firmware-bnx2
| Reading package lists... Done
| Building dependency tree... Done
| The following NEW packages will be installed:
| firmware-bnx2
| 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
| Need to get 104kB of archives.
| After unpacking 279kB of additional disk space will be used.
| Get:1 http://mirror.came.sbg.ac.at etch/non-free firmware-bnx2 0.4+etchnhalf.1 [104kB]
| Fetched 104kB in 0s (1818kB/s)
| Selecting previously deselected package firmware-bnx2.
| (Reading database ... 62627 files and directories currently installed.)
| Unpacking firmware-bnx2 (from .../firmware-bnx2_0.4+etchnhalf.1_all.deb) ...
| Setting up firmware-bnx2 (0.4+etchnhalf.1) ...
| update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.18-5-amd64
Note how it doesn't rebuild the 2.6.24 etchnhalf initrd. Needless to say
the system still didn't properly boot, only purging and reinstalling the
linux-image-2.6.24-etchnhalf.1-amd64 did the trick.
Maybe the firmware-bnx2 package should do "update-initramfs -u -k all"
instead of just "update-initramfs -u".
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