[Pkg-raspi-maintainers] Bug#983896: Bug#983896: raspi-firmware: please link /boot/firmware/*.txt to /etc/raspi-firmware/*.txt

[Holger Levsen]

Hi Gunnar,

On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 01:04:20AM -0500, Gunnar Wolf wrote:
> I don't want to link or copy said files over to /etc, as they would
> break expectations for conffiles (i.e. they will be overwritten on
> upgrade). 

makes sense!

> But I am adding a warning banner to cmdline.txt warning
> about this, and advising the user on how to properly modify it:
>     https://salsa.debian.org/debian/raspi-firmware/-/commit/7e4ce0f8c0038162ccd6474e13ef5bb954851a2d
> I will close this bug by the next package upload. I hope this solution
> satisfies you!

yes, it does, this warning would have saved me :) Thank you!

Just one question remains: whats the diff between /etc/default/raspi-firmware
and /etc/default/raspi-extra-cmdline ? Or more importantly: is that diff
explained in those files? (my raspi is powered off atm.)


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	Holger

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