[systemd-devel] kernel-install questions

[Marc-Antoine Perennou]

On 26 September 2013 00:20, Tom Gundersen <teg at jklm.no> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 4:37 PM, Kay Sievers <kay at vrfy.org> wrote:
>> On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 3:35 PM, Tom Gundersen <teg at jklm.no> wrote:
>>> *) With /boot on fat, 'add' fails for me due to not being able to use
>>> "cp --preserve". How is this meant to work (or was it just not tested
>>> on fat)? Dropping "--preserve" makes it work for me.
>>
>> Hmm, no problems here:
>> # cp --preserve /etc/hostname /boot; echo $?
>> 0
>>
>> # rpm -q coreutils
>> coreutils-8.21-11.fc19.x86_64
>
> Hm, interesting. I'll figure out what's going wrong here.
>


FYI, here it fails with my kernel compiled as standards user and
kernel-install ran as root.
If I first copy the ekrnel as root and then kernel-install my
root-owned copy, it works.

>>> With the below kernel patch make
>>> install "just works".
>>
>> It's on our TODO list for long, but we haven't done it so far.
>
> Ok. Good to know.
>
>>> Was there a reason for the different interface,
>>> or would you be open to adding compatibility with the kernel script?
>>
>> What would compat mean? A symlink to kernel-install from installkernel
>> and checking argv[0]?
>
> Precisely.
>
>>> (I could of course just ship a shim script, but I'd rather not).
>>
>> We thought of letting the kernel Makefile look for kernel-install
>> first and fall back to installkernel, but we haven't look into details
>> so far.
>
> That would be fine for the future, but it would still be useful to
> make stuff just work with old kernel builds for doing bisects and
> stuff like that.
>
> -t
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