[DRAFT v2] Policy for Linux kernel, initramfs, boot loader update process

[Ben Hutchings]

On Fri, 2010-08-06 at 08:20 +0200, Guillem Jover wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> On Sun, 2010-07-04 at 18:48:20 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > 0. The arguments given to all kernel hook scripts are the kernel ABI
> > version (the string that uname -r reports) and, optionally, the absolute
> > path to the kernel image.  If the second argument is missing then the
> > path is either /boot/vmlinuz-$version or /boot/vmlinux-$version,
> > according to architecture convention.  The environment variable
> > DEB_MAINT_PARAMS will contain the arguments given to the kernel
> > maintainer script, possibly single-quoted.  In a shell script, this
> > variable can be parsed using 'set -- $DEB_MAINT_PARAMS'.
> 
> This should probably be 'eval set -- "$DEB_MAINT_PARAMS"' instead, or
> the single quotes will not be stripped, neither any possible spaces
> will be correctly preserved.

You're quite right.  I've just fixed this in the Kernel Handbook.

> It seems from my system at least grub2 will need fixing.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.
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