Bug#465235: unqualified update-grub breaks install of older kernel packages

[Robert Millan]

On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 02:41:54PM -0800, Drake Diedrich wrote:
> We had an issue last week where existing kernel packages were
> installing, but quietly failing to run update-grub.  It turned out to
> be that the build environment for the kernels was an older
> distribution and the resulting kernel packages had a test -x $grubpath
> in the generated postinst.  The new change by grub-installer to
> dequalify the update-grub path has the side effect of subtly breaking
> the expected behavior of older kernel packages, which people may have
> custom compiled for specific machines.  Or in our case, the compile
> environment is the oldest distribution we support, and even though the
> packages are new, the software to build them is older.  Rather than
> just document the issue, it would be nice to address it, either with
> continued generation of correct, fully-qualified paths in
> /etc/kernel-img.conf or by causing a configure failure when the older
> kernels are installed on a machine with a dequalified update-grub in
> kernel-img.conf.

Sorry, we can't stick with the old path forever.  I suggest you add a sed
call in your postinst to adjust /etc/kernel-img.conf or something.

-- 
Robert Millan

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