live-CDs should not update initramfs

[Steinar H. Gunderson]

Binary package hint: casper

Hi,

I've recently had to use a live-CD to rescue my LVMs from some evil corruption. (Yes, I have backups, but believe me, I'd rather spend four hours fixing my LVM than to move 1TB over the network! :-) ) As part of that, I frequently need to install packages like evms, mdadm or lvm2 into the running live-CD session.

Each and every one of these think it's a good idea to update the initramfs. I really don't, given that it'll be dead and gone the next time I boot anyway. It's probably not harmful, but it's a source of irritation and waste of time, especially given that we don't have dpkg triggers yet, so it runs once for every package :-)

[Tollef Fog Heen (tfheen)]

http://codebrowse.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-core-dev/casper/trunk/revision/452 contains the fix; not yet uploaded.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

casper (1.113) hardy; urgency=low

  [ Tollef Fog Heen ]
  * dpkg-divert away update-initramfs as it's useless on live CDs and
    annoying when people install LVM and similar tools in order to rescue
    a system. LP: #150188

  [ Colin Watson ]
  * Adjust /etc/sudoers editing code so that it doesn't repeatedly add
    "NOPASSWD:" in persistent mode (LP: #175159).
  * Avoid ejecting the CD if booting from an ISO image rather than from a
    physical CD (thanks, Agostino Russo; LP: #176014).

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden> Wed, 19 Dec 2007 09:17:50 +0000