extlinux-update ignores EXTLINUX_UPDATE="false"
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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syslinux (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
I have
EXTLINUX_
in /etc/default/
I haven't been able to determine why this happened. If I run extlinux-update by hand, it prints
P: extlinux-update is disabled in /etc/default/
as expected. But somehow the kernel install ignored that and replaced extlinux.conf. Could it have its own extlinux updater rather than using extlinux-update?
EXTLINUX-UPDATE(8) still states that putting "false" there will prevent the updater from modifying anything in /boot/extlinux.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: extlinux 2:4.05+dfsg-2
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-23-
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu7
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Apr 27 19:06:03 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release i386 (20120423.2)
ProcEnviron:
TERM=xterm
LC_COLLATE=C
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/zsh
SourcePackage: syslinux
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
Additionally, a request: it would be lovely if extlinux-update would make a backup copy of files it replaces, so anyone hit by an issue like this (or who just doesn't know yet about /etc/default/ extlinux) can recover their work more easily.