Re: [PATCH] kernel.spec: no more files in /boot

2015-05-10 Thread Dennis Gilmore
On Wednesday, May 06, 2015 03:00:08 PM Josh Boyer wrote: On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 2:53 PM, Jarod Wilson ja...@redhat.com wrote: On Wed, May 06, 2015 at 11:48:00AM -0400, Don Zickus wrote: On Wed, May 06, 2015 at 10:41:28AM -0400, Josh Boyer wrote: Not that my opinion matters much, but I

Re: [PATCH] kernel.spec: no more files in /boot

2015-05-09 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
On Fri, May 08, 2015 at 05:11:15PM -0400, Josh Boyer wrote: On May 8, 2015 11:38 AM, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek zbys...@in.waw.pl wrote: On Thu, May 07, 2015 at 10:08:56PM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: On Thu, May 07, 2015 at 04:29:11PM -0500, Ian Pilcher wrote: Hmm. If don't know

Re: [PATCH] kernel.spec: no more files in /boot

2015-05-08 Thread Don Zickus
On Thu, May 07, 2015 at 04:29:11PM -0500, Ian Pilcher wrote: On 05/06/2015 02:00 PM, Josh Boyer wrote: On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 2:53 PM, Jarod Wilson ja...@redhat.com wrote: One other thought: what happens when /boot is on the same file system as /usr and/or /lib? Does the file get unnecessarily

Re: [PATCH] kernel.spec: no more files in /boot

2015-05-08 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 08.05.2015 um 16:51 schrieb Don Zickus: On Thu, May 07, 2015 at 04:29:11PM -0500, Ian Pilcher wrote: On 05/06/2015 02:00 PM, Josh Boyer wrote: On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 2:53 PM, Jarod Wilson ja...@redhat.com wrote: One other thought: what happens when /boot is on the same file system as /usr

Re: [PATCH] kernel.spec: no more files in /boot

2015-05-08 Thread Josh Boyer
On May 8, 2015 11:38 AM, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek zbys...@in.waw.pl wrote: On Thu, May 07, 2015 at 10:08:56PM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: On Thu, May 07, 2015 at 04:29:11PM -0500, Ian Pilcher wrote: Hmm. If don't know off the top of my head if Fedora cloud images have a separate

Re: [PATCH] kernel.spec: no more files in /boot

2015-05-07 Thread Josh Boyer
On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 1:22 PM, har...@redhat.com wrote: From: Harald Hoyer har...@redhat.com This patch is to install everything to /lib/modules/$KERNEL_VERSION and only have %ghost files for /boot files. Installation in %posttrans with kernel-install should work already. F20: systemd =

Re: [PATCH] kernel.spec: no more files in /boot

2015-05-07 Thread Matthew Miller
On Thu, May 07, 2015 at 04:29:11PM -0500, Ian Pilcher wrote: Hmm. If don't know off the top of my head if Fedora cloud images have a separate /boot or not, but disk space is a big concern in such environments. They don't have a separate boot, fwiw. -- Matthew Miller mat...@fedoraproject.org

Re: [PATCH] kernel.spec: no more files in /boot

2015-05-07 Thread Ian Pilcher
On 05/06/2015 02:00 PM, Josh Boyer wrote: On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 2:53 PM, Jarod Wilson ja...@redhat.com wrote: One other thought: what happens when /boot is on the same file system as /usr and/or /lib? Does the file get unnecessarily copied, or is it hardlinked or _? Copied as far as I

Re: [PATCH] kernel.spec: no more files in /boot

2015-05-06 Thread Harald Hoyer
On 06.05.2015 13:55, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: Hi, In our model: - /usr is vendor supplied - /var is OS state - /etc is admin config - /boot is machine owned and sometimes even shared with other OS (EFI partition Well, at least in fedora + rhel the efi partition is /boot/efi ... I

Re: [PATCH] kernel.spec: no more files in /boot

2015-05-06 Thread Josh Boyer
On Wed, May 06, 2015 at 10:29:36AM -0400, Don Zickus wrote: On Wed, May 06, 2015 at 11:34:41AM +0200, Harald Hoyer wrote: Meh, not in CC and not subscribed to kernel-list. Anyway... On 04.05.2015 19:57, Tom Callaway wrote: On 05/04/2015 01:49 PM, Josh Boyer wrote: So if I

Re: [PATCH] kernel.spec: no more files in /boot

2015-05-06 Thread Don Zickus
On Wed, May 06, 2015 at 11:34:41AM +0200, Harald Hoyer wrote: Meh, not in CC and not subscribed to kernel-list. Anyway... On 04.05.2015 19:57, Tom Callaway wrote: On 05/04/2015 01:49 PM, Josh Boyer wrote: So if I understand the patch correctly, your usecase will still be valid as the

Re: [PATCH] kernel.spec: no more files in /boot

2015-05-06 Thread Jarod Wilson
On Wed, May 06, 2015 at 03:00:08PM -0400, Josh Boyer wrote: On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 2:53 PM, Jarod Wilson ja...@redhat.com wrote: On Wed, May 06, 2015 at 11:48:00AM -0400, Don Zickus wrote: On Wed, May 06, 2015 at 10:41:28AM -0400, Josh Boyer wrote: Not that my opinion matters much, but I

Re: [PATCH] kernel.spec: no more files in /boot

2015-05-06 Thread Jarod Wilson
On Wed, May 06, 2015 at 11:48:00AM -0400, Don Zickus wrote: On Wed, May 06, 2015 at 10:41:28AM -0400, Josh Boyer wrote: Not that my opinion matters much, but I think this is an interesting mind shift. The end result is the same as today, just extra files in /lib/modules/`uname -r`,

Re: [PATCH] kernel.spec: no more files in /boot

2015-05-06 Thread Don Zickus
On Wed, May 06, 2015 at 10:41:28AM -0400, Josh Boyer wrote: Not that my opinion matters much, but I think this is an interesting mind shift. The end result is the same as today, just extra files in /lib/modules/`uname -r`, right? Actually, I was hoping some other kernel maintainers would

[PATCH] kernel.spec: no more files in /boot

2015-05-04 Thread harald
From: Harald Hoyer har...@redhat.com This patch is to install everything to /lib/modules/$KERNEL_VERSION and only have %ghost files for /boot files. Installation in %posttrans with kernel-install should work already. F20: systemd = 208-31 F21: systemd = 216-21 F = 22: systemd = 215-12 The

Re: [PATCH] kernel.spec: no more files in /boot

2015-05-04 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 04.05.2015 um 19:22 schrieb har...@redhat.com: From: Harald Hoyer har...@redhat.com This patch is to install everything to /lib/modules/$KERNEL_VERSION and only have %ghost files for /boot files. Installation in %posttrans with kernel-install should work already. F20: systemd = 208-31

Re: [PATCH] kernel.spec: no more files in /boot

2015-05-04 Thread Josh Boyer
On Mon, May 04, 2015 at 07:32:39PM +0200, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 04.05.2015 um 19:22 schrieb har...@redhat.com: From: Harald Hoyer har...@redhat.com This patch is to install everything to /lib/modules/$KERNEL_VERSION and only have %ghost files for /boot files. Installation in

Re: [PATCH] kernel.spec: no more files in /boot

2015-05-04 Thread Tom Callaway
On 05/04/2015 01:49 PM, Josh Boyer wrote: So if I understand the patch correctly, your usecase will still be valid as the actual files are still in /boot. Nobody is expecting grub (or whatever other loaded) to read files out of /usr/. Moving files in %posttrans to a different location seems