John-Mark Gurney wrote:
Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote this message on Fri, Mar 17, 2006 at 16:28 +0000:
des 2006-03-17 16:28:12 UTC
FreeBSD src repository
Modified files:
etc/rc.d Makefile
Added files:
etc/rc.d kernel
Log:
This script symlinks /boot/kernel to the directory that contains the kernel
you booted from, unless /boot/kernel already exists and is not a symlink.
This should only affect people like me who juggle multiple kernels and
have KODIR = /boot/${KERN_IDENT} in /etc/make.conf to keep them apart.
What part of the tree assumes that /boot/kernel exists? Shouldn't they
be using a dirname'd version of kern.bootfile, which would make this
change unnecessary?
Makefiles in modules and in built kernels do I believe. When I did the
recent make release+sysinstall mods there was a bunch of discussion
about whether /boot/kernel could be eliminated and/or made a symlink.
In the end I took the conservative route and mv'd the installed kernel
to /boot/kernel. For compatibility with des's change sysinstall could
just setup a symlink. However it might also be good to leave the
installed kernel around in case of a calamity (probably depends mostly
on disk space). Another interesting approach is to hack loader to do
something more intelligent when /boot/kernel is not present (e.g. Ed
Maste has mods to pick a up/smp kernel automatically).
Sam
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