Bug#552296: acknowledged by developer (closing 552296)
On Mon, Nov 02, 2009 at 08:21:51AM +0100, Vincent Danjean wrote:
> Xan wrote:
> > Sorry. I have not enough skills for doing that. I will thank if anyone
> > could do that.
>
> This kind of script would be very critical (can lead to unbootable system)
> and there are *lots* of ways users can change their /etc/fstab and
> /boot/grub/menu.lst
> It is relatively easy for a installer starting from scratch to write
> an initial configuration with UUID.
> It is very difficult to write a conversion script that will work in
> any case.
>
> But, perhaps, it would be possible to print a warning pointing on docs
> explaining how to do the transition when such a situation is detected ?
> [this would also apply to the /dev/hd -> /dev/sd transition]
This is not something for the kernel package to do, though. The current
plan is for udev to do that. There is a well-tested upgrade script in
Ubuntu 8.04 (and some earlier versions) and that will probably go into
Debian's udev for 'squeeze'.
Ben.
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