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Man page of KERNEL-IMG.CONF
KERNEL-IMG.CONF
Section: Debian GNU/Linux manual (5)
Updated: 25 May 2025
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NAME
kernel-img.conf - configuration file for Linux kernel packages
SYNOPSIS
/etc/kernel-img.conf
DESCRIPTION
The file
/etc/kernel-img.conf
is used by the kernel package installation and removal process to
allow local options for handling some aspects of the installation.
Not all kernel image package creators support this file:
| Package creator | Status
|
| Debian linux source package | supported
|
| Ubuntu linux source package | supported
|
| make deb-pkg | ignored
|
The format of the file is a simple
VAR=VALUE
pair. Boolean values may be specified as
Yes,
True,
1,
and
No,
False,
0,
and are case insensitive.
This file is automatically created by the installation script in
certain circumstances.
At the moment, the user modifiable variables supported are:
- do_symlinks
-
If set, the postinst and postrm scripts will maintain symlinks to
default kernel and initramfs images, as described in
linux-update-symlinks(8). This variable is set by default.
- image_dest
-
Set this variable to the directory in which symlinks to the
default kernel and initramfs images should be maintained. The
default value is /.
- link_in_boot
-
If set, this has the same effect as image_dest = /boot
and overrides any other setting of image_dest. This
variable is unset by default.
FILES
The file described here is
/etc/kernel-img.conf.
SEE ALSO
linux-update-symlinks(8)
AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
and Ben Hutchings <benh@debian.org> for the Debian GNU/Linux system.
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