Re: Bug#109833: postinst could offer to run lilo

[Colin Walters <walters@verbum.org>]

Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> writes:

>>>"Yann" == Yann Dirson <ydirson@altern.org> writes:
>
>  Yann> Right.  Probably other booloaders could be handled as well.
>  Yann> Such a mechanism is already implemented by kernel-package, I
>  Yann> don't know how easy it could be reused.  Maybe this could be
>  Yann> turned into a somewhat generic API to bootloaders.

Yeah, I'm working on what I'm tentatively calling kernel-package2.
The status is still experimental, but you can make kernel packages
with it and install them.  I've tested the basics (no bootfloppy
creation or anything) on powerpc-linux and i386-linux.  Lots more work
still needs to be done.

Currently I'm doing all the work on my computer (I'm still in
new-maintainer), so the CVS repository is there.  It's browsable
online at:

<URL:http://cvs.verbum.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/debian>

Most importantly, see the file CONCEPT in the distribution for the
main ideas.  I've added stuff to the TODO file.

They're directly accessible at:

<URL:http://cvs.verbum.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/debian/kernel-package2/CONCEPT>
and
<URL:http://cvs.verbum.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/debian/kernel-package2/TODO>

I can give verbum.org CVS accounts to anyone who wants to work on it,
or we could move the CVS repository to debian.org or somewhere else;
whichever is fine by me.

Note that I'm not targeting this for woody; it would take too much
testing to be sure everything works.

And finally, I'm going to be on vacation until September 4th, but I'll
be able to check my email during that time.