On 9/11/18 9:28 PM, Brad Davis wrote: > On Tue, Sep 11, 2018, at 9:58 AM, Guido Falsi wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I've finally cleaned up a local patch I've been using and sent it as a >> code review: >> >> https://reviews.freebsd.org/D17119 >> >> >> As stated in the subject this patch uses a deinstall script to make the >> kernel packages copy the kernel directory to kernel.old when >> deinstalling. This leaves a fallback kernel on the system when >> upgrading, which I find quite useful. >> >> I intentionally made it mimic the "make installkernel" behavior. >> >> I did not add any reviewers in the phabric review since I don't know who >> I should ask, but I'd like to get some feedback about this. > > Hi Guido, > > Good idea, but there is a different plan in the works. Because potentially > there is the desire to keep many kernels around. So we are going to name all > the kernels kernel.version and the loader I believe already knows how to find > them. Allan? Kyle? Do you know what the status is here?
I was not aware of this! Definitely better than my hack. > > See the kernel section here: > https://wiki.freebsd.org/PkgBase#Project_goals_and_additional_unresolved_issues > > If you would like to help work on this I would appreciate it. If you want to > take a look at making pkg understand that multiple versions of the same pkg > can be installed, that would be great! I Can try to have a look, but this will require some time to study the pkg codebase in detail. Is there someone already looking at this? someone I should talk to? -- Guido Falsi <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-pkgbase To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
