r4529 - in dists/trunk/utils/kernel-package: . debian

[Sven Luther]

Author: luther
Date: 2005-10-19 05:55:20 +0000 (Wed, 19 Oct 2005)
New Revision: 4529

Modified:
   dists/trunk/utils/kernel-package/debian/changelog
   dists/trunk/utils/kernel-package/kernel-img.conf.5
Log:
Updated manpage.
Preparing experimental upload to give people something to test with.


Modified: dists/trunk/utils/kernel-package/debian/changelog
===================================================================
--- dists/trunk/utils/kernel-package/debian/changelog	2005-10-19 05:40:49 UTC (rev 4528)
+++ dists/trunk/utils/kernel-package/debian/changelog	2005-10-19 05:55:20 UTC (rev 4529)
@@ -1,8 +1,11 @@
-kernel-package (9.008.1) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
+kernel-package (9.008.0.experimental.1) experimental; urgency=low
 
   * NMU with maintainer's permission.
   * Implement the new ramdisk generation tool finding plan. Thanks go to
     Mattia Dongili for helping me out with the needed perl code.
+  * Added conflict with older version of the ramdisk generating tools to the
+    resulting kernel-image package. 
+  * Upgraded manpage to reflect those changes.
 
  -- Sven Luther <luther at debian.org>  Sun, 16 Oct 2005 08:59:47 +0200
 

Modified: dists/trunk/utils/kernel-package/kernel-img.conf.5
===================================================================
--- dists/trunk/utils/kernel-package/kernel-img.conf.5	2005-10-19 05:40:49 UTC (rev 4528)
+++ dists/trunk/utils/kernel-package/kernel-img.conf.5	2005-10-19 05:55:20 UTC (rev 4529)
@@ -203,11 +203,21 @@
 warning message, but shall be otherwise ignored.
 .TP
 .B ramdisk
-Set this variable to a executable that creates an initial RAM
-disk. This only has any effect if installing a kernel-image that uses
-an initial RAM disk. The command so pointed must be drop-in compatible
-with
-.I mkinitrd.
+Set this variable to a space separated list of executables that create
+an initial RAM disk. This only has any effect if installing a kernel-image
+that uses an initial RAM disk. The commands so pointed must be drop-in
+compatible with
+.I mkinitrd
+and support the
+.I --supported-host-version
+and
+.I --supported-target-version
+arguments.
+At installation time, the commands are queried in turn to see if
+they support the currently running kernel as host kernel and the to be
+installed kernel as target kernel, and removed from the list if not. 
+Then the first of the remaining executables is used to create the actual
+initial RAM disk. The install will fail if no suitable tool is found.
 .TP
 .B src_postinst_hook 
 Unlike the other hook variables, this is meant for a script run during