[Bug 1069062] Re: [dist-upgrade] Dangerous package "flash-kernel", manually removed, was automatically reinstalled by upgrade to Q
Forgács Gábor
slylessystem at gmail.com
Thu Oct 24 06:55:07 UTC 2013
The package flash-kernel is a package which causes the flash partition
/dev/mmcblk0 to be unconditionally overwritten each time you install a
new kernel or module. I have a multiboot setup with Android and Ubuntu
on my AC100, and load the kernel from a SD-card using Multiboot
installed in the rescue partition. So I don't want my /dev/mmcblk0
overwritten (that would break my multiboot setup), I just want the
kernels to be put in /boot as usual (where Multiboot will find them).
Thus, I have uninstalled this package, which has had the desired effect
of not destroying my boot partition all the time.
However, when upgrading to quantal, dist-upgrade sneakily chose to
reverse my decision and reinstall this landmine of a package behind my
back (see also bug#1069059). If I hadn't discovered it in time, it
would probably had destroyed my boot partition further down the upgrade
process. As it were, I was unable to just uninstall it (the dpkg
database was locked by the upgrade in progress), so I took the
precaution of deleting the device node /dev/mmcblk0 instead...
Please respect my wishes to not have my partitions overwritten, and
don't automatically install packages which unconditonally do so.
Thanks.
** Changed in: update-manager (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Invalid
** Converted to question:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-manager/+question/237945
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Title:
[dist-upgrade] Dangerous package "flash-kernel", manually removed, was
automatically reinstalled by upgrade to Q
Status in “update-manager” package in Ubuntu:
Invalid
Bug description:
The package flash-kernel is a package which causes the flash partition
/dev/mmcblk0 to be unconditionally overwritten each time you install a
new kernel or module. I have a multiboot setup with Android and
Ubuntu on my AC100, and load the kernel from a SD-card using Multiboot
installed in the rescue partition. So I don't want my /dev/mmcblk0
overwritten (that would break my multiboot setup), I just want the
kernels to be put in /boot as usual (where Multiboot will find them).
Thus, I have uninstalled this package, which has had the desired
effect of not destroying my boot partition all the time.
However, when upgrading to quantal, dist-upgrade sneakily chose to
reverse my decision and reinstall this landmine of a package behind my
back (see also bug#1069059). If I hadn't discovered it in time, it
would probably had destroyed my boot partition further down the
upgrade process. As it were, I was unable to just uninstall it (the
dpkg database was locked by the upgrade in progress), so I took the
precaution of deleting the device node /dev/mmcblk0 instead...
Please respect my wishes to not have my partitions overwritten, and
don't automatically install packages which unconditonally do so.
Thanks.
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