On Mon, 2010-10-18 at 12:10 -0200, Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues wrote: > On Mon, 2010-10-18 at 06:45 -0700, John Admanski wrote: > > If you would like to replace boottool I'd be happy to see it go...I > > seem to remember having a discussions about replacing it as far back > > as 2008. It's just hard to find a significant amount of time to > > allocate to replacing something that mostly-works, at least well > > enough to get by... > > Absolutely. I'll put this on my TODO list, anyway I think we'll want to > support grub2 eventually. Grubby is a candidate, but it's missing the > --boot-once functionality, so we'd need to patch it and write support > for grub2. Also, it needs to be compiled on the client machines, so it's > important to check how to do this specially in the cross compiling mode > the Chrome OS folks use. So, maybe it is still worthy to develop our own > python replacement for boottool... > > In the meantime, the 6 patches I sent should be enough to get the kernel > build/install/boot funtctionality working for newer Fedora/RHEL. Please > take a look at them and let me know what you think.
PS - Those patches have been put to test on our internal autotest server, everything seems to work just fine, at least for our RHEL5/RHEL6/F14 clients. They should not cause any regressions on other OS vendors, such as Debian/older Ubuntu, but it'd be good to run some tests against your typical clients just to double check. Would that be possible? _______________________________________________ Autotest mailing list [email protected] http://test.kernel.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/autotest
