On Wed, Dec 20, 2023 at 12:57 AM Jose Ignacio Tornos Martinez <jtornosm@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > The new installkernel application that is now included in systemd-udev > package allows installation although destination files are already present > in the boot directory of the kernel package, but is failing with the > implemented workaround for the old installkernel application from grubby > package. > > For the new installkernel application, as Davide says: > <<The %post currently does a shuffling dance before calling installkernel. > This isn't actually necessary afaict, and the current implementation > ends up triggering downstream issues such as > https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/29568 > This commit simplifies the logic to remove the shuffling. For reference, > the original logic was added in commit 3c9c7a14b627("rpm-pkg: add %post > section to create initramfs and grub hooks").>> > > But we need to keep the old behavior as well, because the old installkernel > application from grubby package, does not allow this simplification and > we need to be backward compatible to avoid issues with the different > packages. > > Mimic Fedora shipping process and store vmlinuz, config amd System.map > in the module directory instead of the boot directory. In this way, we will > avoid the commented problem for all the cases, because the new destination > files are not going to exist in the boot directory of the kernel package. > > Replace installkernel tool with kernel-install tool, because the latter is > more complete. Suitable manual actions are added as a default if tool is not > present (unusual). > > Special installation case for discontinued architecture ia64 has been > removed. This code does not exist any more. A patch applicable to linux-kbuild would be appreciated. -- Best Regards Masahiro Yamada
