[Bug 990258] Re: extlinux-update ignores EXTLINUX_UPDATE="false"

[Akkana Peck]

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.

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Title:
  extlinux-update ignores EXTLINUX_UPDATE="false"

Status in “syslinux” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  I have 
  EXTLINUX_UPDATE="false"
  in /etc/default/extlinux, so that I can maintain my own /boot/extlinux/extlinux.conf. In Oneiric this worked fine. But on my newly installed Precise Pangolin, I just did an apt-get dist-upgrade, got a new kernel, and lost my extlinux.conf file.

  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/extlinux.
  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
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-23.36-generic-pae 3.2.14
  Uname: Linux 3.2.0-23-generic-pae i686
  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)

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