On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 08:50:27PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
On Wed, 2010-06-23 at 23:31 +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 10:12:42AM -0400, Stephen Powell wrote:>That does seem like a more general-purpose solution, rather than >having lilo and zipl treated as special cases. But please keep the >appropriate parties informed of any future design changes to >update-initramfs. I myself have never used yaird, but I assume that >to be consistent it should have a similar hook system.A great while back initramfs-tools and kernel packages broke the ABI coordinated across initramfs-tools, linux-2.6, yaird and kernel-package.Sure would be nice with a stable ABI again, and getting informed if it changes.That is a separate issue. What we need here is an interface for the initramfs builder to update the boot loader if necessary. No such interface exists yet, AFAIK.
Agreed, this is a different ABI. The wish for such ABI being treated as a cross-package ABI still exist.
One approach would be to create a page at wiki.debian.org which all interested parties could then subscribe to.
I would dislike if (as in the past) we simply rely on whatever internal routines implemented by the most popular packages (initramfs-tools and minux-2.6) which others then need to track sources of.
I suggest something like the following: 1. Boot loaders that maintain block lists install a script under /etc/mkinitramfs/post-update.d which takes two arguments: the kernel ABI version (uname -r) and the absolute path to an initramfs. 2. Initramfs builders call the scripts in this directory after creating, updating or deleting an initramfs by running: run-parts --verbose --exit-on-error --arg=$version --arg=$path /etc/mkinitramfs/post-update.d or similar. We could alternately use multiple directories or an argument to distinguish creation, update and deletion. However, I suspect that these scripts will need to invoke the same command in all cases.
Seems reasonable to me. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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