Bug 148253 – sys-kernel/genkernel script should not write to /usr/share

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Hosted Projects

[Description kalium 2006-09-19 14:52:56 UTC]

The script writes the initrd to /usr/share/genkernel/pkg/x86/cpio. Please put the output in the kernel source dir or /usr/src etc.

[Comment 1 Christopher Byrne 2006-09-19 17:02:08 UTC]

Actually, the initramfs and all the intermediate cache files should probably be written to /var/cache/genkernel (or some subfolder, like /var/cache/genkerne/<arch> for LFS complicance, plus it makes it much easier to clear the cache when genkernel is updated (as there is no switch to purge the cache)

[Comment 2 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2006-09-20 06:35:33 UTC]

There's no need to CC people that are maintainers and on the alias.

Anyway, patches are welcome.  It cannot be made to write to the kernel directory, though, unless it also completely utilizes KBUILD_OUTPUT.  It would probably be preferable to stick it somewhere else under /var/tmp or /var/cache, as Salah pointed out.  Since this isn't a bug, per se, I'm changing to enhancement.

[Comment 3 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2007-03-14 00:47:07 UTC]

Well, this has actually been configurable (CACHE_DIR) in genkernel for a *very* long time now.  That being said, I've changed the default in SVN to point to /var/cache/genkernel/%%ARCH%% instead of /usr/share/genkernel/pkg/%%ARCH%% where it used to be set.

[Comment 4 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2007-04-05 15:00:59 UTC]

This is fixed in genkernel 3.4.7 which is now in the tree.