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Bug#575283: marked as done (/usr/sbin/update-initramfs: treats kernel version 2.6.32-trunk-amd64 as newer than 2.6.32-3-amd64)

Your message dated Sun, 4 Apr 2010 02:54:21 +0200
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has caused the Debian Bug report #575283,
regarding /usr/sbin/update-initramfs: treats kernel version 2.6.32-trunk-amd64 as newer than 2.6.32-3-amd64
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Package: initramfs-tools
Version: 0.93.4
Severity: normal
File: /usr/sbin/update-initramfs

Hi,

update-initramfs considers linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-amd64 to be newer
than linux-image-2.6.32-3-amd64 causing the initrd of an outdated kernel
to be updated.
Even though the 2.6.32-trunk kernels are no longer available in the
archive, they are probably installed on some machines tracking sid or
squeeze and are not going to be removed automatically (that is a good
thing), so they will continue to confuse update-initramfs unless they
are uninstalled manually. From popcon I got the following counts:

    $ zgrep image-2.6.32-trunk all-popcon-results.txt.gz | sort -nr -k 3
    Package: linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686    4075   756   313     7
    Package: linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-amd64  2907   611   200     6

So there seems to be a significant amount of machines having them
still installed (only looking at the main variants amd64 and 686).

See also bugs #568160 and #570318 covering grub-legacy/grub2 to wrongly
sort the -trunk kernel ahead of the newer kernels.


Andreas

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (800, 'stable'), (700, 'testing'), (600, 'unstable'), (130, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-3-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages initramfs-tools depends on:
ii  cpio                         2.11-1      GNU cpio -- a program to manage ar
ii  findutils                    4.4.2-1     utilities for finding files--find,
ii  klibc-utils                  1.5.15-1    small utilities built with klibc f
ii  module-init-tools            3.12~pre2-1 tools for managing Linux kernel mo
ii  udev                         151-3       /dev/ and hotplug management daemo

Versions of packages initramfs-tools recommends:
ii  busybox                       1:1.14.2-2 Tiny utilities for small and embed

initramfs-tools suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information

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--- Begin Message --- 
trunk image is gone since some time,
people will just kick it off.

it was a mistake, mistakes happen, sorry.
no point in having an advanced sorting algo here.

closing.

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