Re: Apt how, why, where
>
> Hi,
> >>"E" == E L Meijer \(Eric\) <E.L.> writes:
>
> E> Being lazy myself, I have a feature request on behalf of all the (lazy)
> E> loadlin users. Would it be possible to have the newly created
> E> kernel-image package offer the option of copying the kernel to the
> E> place loadlin expects it in your setup? I would figure that
> E> kernel-package_...deb could ask if there is a standard
> E> `loadlin-kernel-directory', and store that in its configuration files.
> E> Of course it should rename old kernels using some intelligent renaming
> E> scheme (vmlinuz.1, vmlinuz.2, ...).
>
> Is it really that bad doing a
> # cp /vmlinuz /place/to/keep/images
> ? The reason I have not done so is that some people keep the images
> on dos partitions (which may or may not be mounted, and others keep
> it on a floppy.
No, that's not hard at all. The very nice thing about make-kpkg is that
it combines a lot of steps none of which is particularly hard (I did use
slackware once), but it's easy to forget one, or do them in a wrong
order. For exactly that reason it would be nice to add this copying of
the kernel to the automated process. But if it complicates things
too much, I won't be nagging you about it. I wouldn't want to be the
cause of some freshly introduced bugs in this great package!
Eric
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