Re: pinning hook

[Ronny Standtke <Ronny.Standtke@fhnw.ch>]

> The pinning can be done all the way of the build (at least with
> live-build 2.x). You could do it just using config/chroot_apt/.

That's true. But then you have to remember to always upgrade the preferences 
file *manually* when the version of one of the pinned packages changes.

This burden is taken off your shoulders with the the pinning hook, it does 
this *automatically* for you: it just adds the packages to pin with their 
current version number of the current build to the apt preferences file.

> Even using pinning the kernel upgrade can't build new initrd/vmlinux
> files and can't install them anyway.

Kernel upgrades are *prevented* by the pinning hook. They can no longer happen 
and therefore they can no longer fail. That's the whole idea of the pinning 
hook.


Ronny Standtke

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