Bugzilla Bug 169383

I've always liked the way the manual kernel install, through "make install",
maintained the vmlinuz and vmlinuz.old symlinks (and their brethren for config
and System.map).  The other nice thing about "make install" is that it
maintains the previous kernel image and related products, renamed with .old
extensions.

In looking at the genkernel script, I found the currently undocumented
--symlink feature.  Alas, this feature didn't fully mirror what "make install"
did.  I've kind of beefed up the implementation of this command line option so
that it very closely mimics that process.

I've included a patch against genkernel-3.4.6.

Is this something that you all would be willing to accept into the source?  If
so, I'll update the documentation source as well.

- John


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Created an attachment (id=112126) [details]
Patch implements new --symlink handling.

I've added this to subversion and it'll show up in the next genkernel version. 
I haven't tested it, but it looks good.

Thanks for the patch.

Chris,

Thanks.  Sorry it's taken me so long, but, here's another patch, additive to
the last one, that updates the man page and the internal documentation produced
by "genkernel --help".

I made one other operational change:  Consistent with the other options, like
--install / --no-install, I added a --no-symlink option to complement the new
--symlink option.  Hope that's okay.

- John

Created an attachment (id=115061) [details]
Updates man page and internal --help documentation.

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