Re: kernel-package??

[Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@ieee.org>]

On Thu, Apr 30 2009, thveillon.debian wrote:

ers are non-essential.
>
> Installing the created .deb will take care of all the linking (/initrd,
> /vmlinuz, build dir...), boot-loader update (with grub at least), initrd
>  creation/update and such.

        Actually, with the 12.XX branch, you get to choose what happens
 when the kernel image is installed, by dropping scripts into
 /etc/kernel -- by default, no action is taken

         For example, to create an initramfs, I did:
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
 cp /usr/share/kernel-package/examples/etc/kernel/postinst.d/yaird \
    /etc/kernel/postinst.d/
 cp /usr/share/kernel-package/examples/etc/kernel/postrm.d/yaird \
    /etc/kernel/postrm.d/
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

        Or, alternately, you could do:
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
 cp /usr/share/kernel-package/examples/etc/kernel/postinst.d/initramfs \
    /etc/kernel/postinst.d/
 cp /usr/share/kernel-package/examples/etc/kernel/postrm.d/initramfs \
    /etc/kernel/postrm.d/
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

        To run grub, I have in /etc/kernel-img.conf:
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
postinst_hook = update-grub
postrm_hook   = update-grub
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

        But really, you can substitute your own scripts, or decide not
 to use initrds (which is a sane option if you are building your own
 kernels and thus might not have any modules at all).

        manoj
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