genkernel 3.x dies when building a 2.4.22-r2 kernel without bootsplash being emerged Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge unmerge bootsplash 2. genkernel all Actual Results: genkernel died. new kernel is copied to /boot, initrd not. Expected Results: Either have bootsplash as a dependency to genkernel or ignore bootsplash if not emerged workaround: emerge bootsplash before genkernel Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.12 Portage 2.0.49-r20 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.2, glibc-2.3.3_pre20031222-r0, 2.4.22-gentoo-r2) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.22-gentoo-r2 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1.80GHz ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -msse2 -funroll-loops -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -msse2 -funroll-loops -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X apm arts avi berkdb crypt cups encode esd foomaticdb gdbm gif gnome gpm gtk gtk2 imlib java jpeg kde libg++ libwww mad mikmod motif mpeg ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline sdl slang spell ssl svga tcpd truetype x86 xml2 xmms xv zlib"
I see that genkernel-3.0.1_beta4 attempts to fix this simply by listing a dependency on bootsplash. Wrong answer! Not so minor if the system in question has USE="-X -gtk -gnome -alsa -kde -qt -motif -opengl -imlib" (irrelevant flags omitted) since the dependency on bootsplash results in dependencies on media-libs/libmng media-libs/lcms media-libs/jpeg media-libs/freetype so a lot of <polite>stuff</polite> getting emerged onto a headless server. Respectfully suggest that severity by upped to MAJOR.
closing as invalid. it doesn't emerge that much stuff, deal with it until we have a use flag to specifically turn it on. Or don't use genkernel
Reopening as an enhancement request
Ideally, couldn't genkernel simply test for the presence of whatever binary it needs from bootsplash, use it if it's there, inform the user if it isn't and continue without a bootsplash image? I haven't looked at the actual code.
*** Bug 41356 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
As mentioned in #41356, passing --no-bootsplash is an option. However, that still requires that the bootsplash bloat be installed on the LiveCD. i'd like to second/third/fourth/whatever the request that genkernel have a better way of handling this. Given that catalyst depends on genkernel, we don't have an option of "not using genkernel" as suggested earlier.
shouldn't have 'bloat' in the resulting livecd if you clean /etc/bootsplash Though most livecds _want_ bootsplash ... don't know a proper use flag, many people use genkernel just to get the use flag, so it would have to be a negative use flag like, not specify it to get it ....
s/to get the use flag/to get bootsplash/
[[ Reassigning ]]
*** Bug 44049 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Well, Genkernel will happily work without bootsplash so I don't see why it's listed as a dependency: so we just need to add a bootsplash USE flag and I think this is sorted...
A similar problem also occurs if dietlibc isn't installed: genkernel gets emerged happily, but dies after building the kernel while preparing to assemble the initrd.
I've added an optional local bootsplash USE flag which will pull in bootsplash when enabled but not otherwise; so I'm closing this as FIXED.
