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Re: Standardizing use of kernel hook scripts



As there haven't been any replies to my mail yet, I'm just going to push 
my patches for the deb-pkg target upstream.

The only really important issue is the passing of maintainer script 
parameters as described below. I hope we can standardize on that.

Cheers,
FJP

Frans Pop wrote:
> Maintainer script parameters
> ----------------------------
> Currently maintainer script parameters are not passed on to the hook
> scripts, but IMO they could be very useful, for example: a bootloader
> update only needs to be run on package removal, but not on purge.

Other examples are:
- a test to prevent removal of the currently running kernel (while
  allowing upgrades)
- a warning to reboot if the currently running kernel is upgraded

> Given the previous point I think adding them to the parameters passed to
> the hook scripts is not a good option. I therefore propose to instead
> export them in a standard environment parameter. Proposal:
>     export DEB_MAINT_PARAMS="$@"


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