Re: [DRAFT v2] Policy for Linux kernel, initramfs, boot loader update process
Hi!
On Sun, 2010-07-04 at 18:48:20 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> 0. The arguments given to all kernel hook scripts are the kernel ABI
> version (the string that uname -r reports) and, optionally, the absolute
> path to the kernel image. If the second argument is missing then the
> path is either /boot/vmlinuz-$version or /boot/vmlinux-$version,
> according to architecture convention. The environment variable
> DEB_MAINT_PARAMS will contain the arguments given to the kernel
> maintainer script, possibly single-quoted. In a shell script, this
> variable can be parsed using 'set -- $DEB_MAINT_PARAMS'.
This should probably be 'eval set -- "$DEB_MAINT_PARAMS"' instead, or
the single quotes will not be stripped, neither any possible spaces
will be correctly preserved.
It seems from my system at least grub2 will need fixing.
regards,
guillem
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