Control: tag -1 wontfix On Mon, 2016-06-27 at 15:20 +0300, Evgeny Kapun wrote: > On 27.06.2016 15:03, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > Doesn't lilo fail if a file specified in its configuration is > > missing? > > > > Ben. > > > LILO has an "optional" option which makes it skip an entry if either > the kernel or the initrd file is missing (or is a broken link). That's a good point. I checked whether liloconfig would put the 'optional' keyword in /etc/lilo.conf, but the config file it generated didn't mention the symlinks at all. So I don't think it makes sense to assume that people use the 'optional' keyword. There are other boot loaders that I think will use the symlinks during package updates: elilo, palo and zipl. They all have similar configuration syntax to lilo, but it appears that elilo and palo do not support the 'optional' keyword. Although the 'old' symlinks will sometimes be redundant, I don't think this issue outweighs the inconvenience of a failed boot loader update. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Humour is the best antidote to reality.
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