Automatic initramfs regeneration
From time to time, various packages are updated which affect the initramfs build process (initramfs-tools, usplash, etc.). These changes currently have no effect until the user either upgrades their kernel or manually runs mkinitramfs or equivalent from the command line.
We want these changes to propagate immediately, because they often incorporate bugfixes, and it is better to make the changes up front than to have them happen later unexpectedly during a kernel upgrade (such as a security update).
This process should also notify the user that they need to reboot.
Blueprint information
- Status:
- Complete
- Approver:
- Martin Pitt
- Priority:
- Medium
- Drafter:
- Ben Collins
- Direction:
- Needs approval
- Assignee:
- Adam Conrad
- Definition:
- Approved
- Series goal:
- Accepted for dapper
- Implementation:
-
Implemented
- Milestone target:
- None
- Started by
- Matt Zimmerman
- Completed by
- Matt Zimmerman
Whiteboard
Reviewed by \sh, 5 Nov.
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Reviewed by mdz, 2005-11-09
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BenC: Most of the implementation was done in kernel-package (kernel postinst/postrm scripts come from there). Completed 2005-12-01.
