Subject: Bug#380338: s,/sbin/update-grub,update-grub,g transition (was: Bug#380338: fixed in kernel-package 10.051)
Newsgroups: gmane.linux.debian.devel.bugs.general
Date: 2006-08-06 07:11:52 GMT (3 years, 26 weeks, 6 days and 21 minutes ago)
reopen 380338 severity 380338 wishlist retitle 380338 please handle the s,/sbin/update-grub,update-grub,g transition from here (needed for #361929) thanks On Sat, Aug 05, 2006 at 11:18:10PM -0700, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: > * Bug fix: "forces absolute paths in /etc/kernel-img.conf *_hook > variables", thanks to Robert Millan. I elected not to use the patch > provided, since I did not want to blindly trust the PATH variable, and > wanted also to change the ignoring of the return value of the > scripts. (Closes: #380338). Nice, thanks. And wrt this: > As for #361929, I overlooked that kernel-package also happens to be the most > appropiate place for fixing the user scripts. Would you please also add > something like: > > sed -i /etc/kernel-img.conf -e "s,\(.*\)/sbin/update-grub$,\1update-grub,g" > > for linux-image-* postinsts ? > > (or whatever the perl equivalent is) Do you think it could be put in kernel-package as well ? We could handle the transition in grub, but then we'd have to work out when do our kernel postinsts support relative paths, and it's not trivial because of the way kernel-package is used to generate postinsts in other packages. -- Robert Millan My spam trap is honeypot <at> aybabtu.com. Note: this address is only intended for spam harvesters. Writing to it will get you added to my black list.