Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 3 Apr 2001 00:38:04 +0200 | From | "J . A . Magallon" <> | Subject | Re: bug database braindump from the kernel summit |
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On 04.03 Jeff Garzik wrote: > "J . A . Magallon" wrote: > > Could <installkernel> make part of the kernel scripts, or in one other > > standard software package, like modutils, so its versions are controlled > > There is value in putting it into the Linux kernel source tree, in > linux/scripts dir. But most vendors can and should take this script as > a sample, and customize it for their distro. The Linux-Mandrake > installkernel script definitely gets touched every so often, and > decisions it makes, like updating lilo.conf or grub/menu.lst, or > autodetecting the boot loader, are definitely not to be applied for all > cases. >
I think that should be split in two, one thing is building and install a kernel and one other is add the entry in your bootloader config ('update-bootloader', for example, that looks into /boot and adds missing entries).
> FWIW here is our /sbin/installkernel command line usage help text, to > give a glimpse of what it does and can do:
I know, run Cooker.
> > There will never be an official place to put this stuff, because that's > a distro policy decision. A quick search just now reveals no reference > to /boot in the i386 Makefiles, and only a quick reference in the README > file.
linux/Makefile, #INSTALL_PATH=/boot
> > > And you can add something like /proc/signature/map, /proc/signature/config, > > etc to md5-check if a certain file fits running kernel. >
I usually think about /proc like the way to do a 'cat' instead of a 'syscall', in this case to ask kernel for various md5 sigs, but of course you can always write a user app that queries kernel and prints result for your scripting pleasure...
-- J.A. Magallon # Let the source mailto:jamagallon@able.es # be with you, Luke...
Linux werewolf 2.4.3 #2 SMP Fri Mar 30 15:42:05 CEST 2001 i686
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