On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 7:25 AM, Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues <[email protected]>wrote:
> 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? > > Well, I'm not really the person to do that here; I work on a different team now so my most of my work on Autotest is just advisory and code review now. That said, in the past I've generally dealt with these kinds of changes when merging between the subversion and our internal branch rather than gating subversion checkins on Google doing its own testing. -- John
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