[systemd-devel] So how am I supposed to put together my Linux system?

[Colin Guthrie]

Tobias Hunger wrote on 05/09/14 19:34:
> Any place that you would care to recomend? It would suck to have each
> distro put kernels somewhere else.

Good question.

On Mageia and Fedora (at least originally, not sure if it's changed
recently), the modules are in:

/lib/modules/<kernel-version>/

tree.


These days this should of course be:

/usr/lib/modules/<kernel-version>/



The actual modules are stored in a:

/lib/modules/<kernel-version>/kernel/

subfolder.



If there are no compelling reasons to pick otherwise, we could use:

/usr/lib/kernel/<kernel-version>/

tree.

Inside there would be a:

/usr/lib/kernel/<kernel-version>/modules/

folder containing the actual modules (same as
/lib/modules/<kernel-version>/kernel/)


For compatibility, the /lib/modules/<kernel-version> could be symlinked
to /usr/lib/kernel/<kernel-version> and a simple "modules -> kernel"
symlink shipped inside the /usr/lib/kernel/<kernel-version>/ folder. All
old paths would work in that case.


The kernel itself could then simply be:

/usr/lib/kernel/<kernel-version>/vmlinuz


Not sure if this is just completely made up in my head or if this is how
others have envisioned it also. I don't think any of the spec documents
talked about the actual filesystem layout of the actual kernel
files/modules.


Cheers

Col




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