the idea is to backup on an update call any initramfs
that is older than a certain time, lets say 6h or maybe 24h
thus not created while upgrading mdadm, udev, usplash, cryptsetup or
so together.
How about backuping any initramfs that is older than uptime?
will be in 0.81 update-initramfs.
On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 11:52:29AM +0200, maximilian attems wrote:
On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 11:06:54AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 11:00:21AM +0200, maximilian attems wrote:
snipp
nono, not debconf please.
Why not debconf ?
useless user intervention, useless
A power cut during update-initramfs may leave the system in an unbootable state as the old initrd.img is
overwritten, but the new initrd.img is not yet completed. (This happened to me when my laptop battery ran empty.)
A simple fix would be to create the new initrd.img as a temporary file and
On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 09:23:15AM +0200, Thiemo Nagel wrote:
A power cut during update-initramfs may leave the system in an unbootable
state as the old initrd.img is overwritten, but the new initrd.img is not
yet completed. (This happened to me when my laptop battery ran empty.)
A simple
On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 10:17:12AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 09:23:15AM +0200, Thiemo Nagel wrote:
A power cut during update-initramfs may leave the system in an unbootable
state as the old initrd.img is overwritten, but the new initrd.img is not
yet completed.
On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 11:00:21AM +0200, maximilian attems wrote:
On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 10:17:12AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
What about backuping the currently running one ? Or keeping load of backups
?
But the idea was to ask this in a debconf question at lower priorities :
On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 11:06:54AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 11:00:21AM +0200, maximilian attems wrote:
snipp
nono, not debconf please.
Why not debconf ?
useless user intervention, useless work for translators.
not portable beyond Debian unless carefully done.
Package: initramfs-tools
Version: 0.79
Severity: important
A power cut during update-initramfs may leave the system in an unbootable state
as the old initrd.img is
overwritten, but the new initrd.img is not yet completed. (This happened to me
when my laptop battery ran empty.)
A simple fix
On Sat, Sep 16, 2006 at 06:29:26PM +0200, Thiemo Nagel wrote:
Package: initramfs-tools
Version: 0.79
Severity: important
A power cut during update-initramfs may leave the system in an unbootable
state as the old initrd.img is
overwritten, but the new initrd.img is not yet completed.
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