Hi,
I was busy making a script and I stumbled upon /sbin/installkernel.
Which does some weird stuff.
Please take a look at my patch with motivation comments.
Groetjes, Han.
--
http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanb/software
--- installkernel.mdk 2002-08-17 12:36:03.000000000 +0200
+++ installkernel 2002-08-17 12:55:34.000000000 +0200
@@ -26,10 +26,13 @@
source /etc/sysconfig/installkernel
fi
-function read_link () {
- #at this time we have perl since we do kernel copy
- [[ -x /usr/bin/perl ]] && perl -e '{print readlink shift, "\n"}' $1
-}
+# Heej why do easy when you can do it the hard way?
+# Just use readlink like this nifty little module does.
+#
+#function read_link () {
+# #at this time we have perl since we do kernel copy
+# [[ -x /usr/bin/perl ]] && perl -e '{print readlink shift, "\n"}' $1
+#}
function copy_image () {
local config=""
@@ -37,12 +40,13 @@
if [[ -f .config ]];then
config=.config
- elif [[ -f ../../../.config ]];then
- config=../../../.config
+# Is there any good reason why this should be included? If there is, please use a
+direct instead on an indirect url.
+# elif [[ -f ../../../.config ]];then
+# config=../../../.config
fi
if [ -L $boot/vmlinuz ];then
- link=$(read_link $boot/vmlinuz)
+ link=`readlink $boot/vmlinuz`
link=${link##*/} #make it relative
rm -f /boot/vmlinuz
[[ "${boot}/${link}" != "${boot}/vmlinuz-${version}" && -f ${boot}/${link} ]]
&& ln -sf ${link} /boot/vmlinuz.old
