kernel postinst.d/postrm.d hooks execute alphabetically

[Matt Sealey]

On shipped Maverick systems /etc/kernel/postinst.d and /etc/kernel/postrm.d do not have flash-kernel support by default.

Adding a simple script

#!/bin/sh
flash-kernel $1

As "/etc/kernel/postinst.d/flash-kernel" enables this support but the postinst and postrm scripts are run alphabetically from the directories.

The current hack solution is to name the script "xflash-kernel"

Like udev scripts it would be better if they were numbered so they executed in the correct order.

[Matt Sealey (mwsealey)]

To clarify, the bug affects anything that is going to put a hook into any /etc/kernel/*.d directory.

Scripts should be numbered with an explicit order of operation so that for instance initramfs-tools is run before flash-kernel, or grub, without naming scripts zz-update-grub.

[Oliver Grawert (ogra)]

flash-kernel ships a zz-flash-kernel postinst hook for the kernel package since a while by default which works around this bug ... since maverick is EOL for quite a while now, the bug is being worked around with the default install and since i belive this is handled according to the request in teh upcoming flash-kernel that we will witch to in 12.10, i'm closing the ubuntu task now.