On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 11:59:32PM +1100, Jamie Wilkinson wrote: > This one time, at band camp, Robert Millan wrote: > > Place the package files in /usr/lib, and copy them conditionaly (debconf) > > into /boot. The debconf question would properly explain that if per chooses > > to update it, then the system must be rebooted promptly. > > > >Another option: > > > > Place the package files in /boot, but save a backup of them before > > (preinst). > > Then prompt the user to reboot through debconf. > > > >Or even a combination of the two. > > A third method may involve a rc script that makes sure the correct version > of System.map is installed. Then the only time kernel symbols are not found > is between the package upgrade and just after the next reboot.
Sounds viable. I'll try to remember that. -- Robert Millan "[..] but the delight and pride of Aule is in the deed of making, and in the thing made, and neither in possession nor in his own mastery; wherefore he gives and hoards not, and is free from care, passing ever on to some new work." -- J.R.R.T, Ainulindale (Silmarillion)