On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 08:11:18AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Wed, 28 Sep 2005 06:24:51 +0200, Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > reassign 330445 kernel-package thanks > > > On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 08:22:38PM -0700, Ryan Murray wrote: > >> Package: > >> linux-image-2.6.12-1-powerpc,linux-kernel-di-powerpc-2.6,kernel-package > >> Severity: serious > >> > >> The problem: > >> * linux-kernel-di-powerpc-2.6 build-depends on kernel images. > >> * build daemons install packages in noninteractive mode > >> * the kernel images do not install successfully in noninteractive > >> mode: > > > This is not a linux kernel package, but exclusively a kernel-package > > issue, which provides the postinst and co scripts, and needs to be > > made debconf aware. > > > Manoj promised some rewrite, modularization and debconfification for > > post-sarge, but i don't know what the current planes are for this. > > None of that promises to make kernel images install > non-interactively, if installing kernel images may make the system > unbootable. The primary concern remains end users who install kernel > images.
Ah, you are wrong, if the scripts where using debconf, then you could preseed it, or use the non-interactive mode or whatever. The current questions are mostly worthless (at least on powerpc) anyway, and are just an annoyance that should go away. I believe that the kernel package should work out of the box and not need manual intervention to set the initrd thingy, since the kernel image knows perfectly that it needs an initrd or not, so why have it have the logic to know about it and tell the user instead of just doing the right thing ? I think now is the moment to think about the futur of kernel-package, and what will happen to it for etch. Could you tell us a bit more about what your plans are for that ? Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
