38019 – Genkernel overwrites existing kernels

Bug 38019 - Genkernel overwrites existing kernels

Summary: Genkernel overwrites existing kernels

Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Hosted Projects
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	genkernel (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High enhancement
Assignee:	Brad House

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Reported:	2004-01-12 17:40 UTC by Bjorn
Modified:	2004-01-18 08:13 UTC (History)
CC List:	3 users (show)

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Description Bjorn 2004-01-12 17:40:51 UTC

Genkernels default behaivor overwrites any existing kernels that where created with the same sources. Example: current gs-sources v r2 writes "kernel-2.4.23_pre8-gss" which overwrites a kernel created with gs-sources r1 versions.

It would be ideal for genkernel to create the kernel/initrd names from the info in /usr/src/linux/Makefile , first 4 lines.

this way, if i modify Makefile as shown,
VERSION = 2
PATCHLEVEL = 4
SUBLEVEL = 23
EXTRAVERSION = _gss-custom

It would create kernel-2.4.23_gss-custom and not overwrite any current kernels



Reproducible: Always
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Comment 1 Bjorn 2004-01-12 17:42:46 UTC

Forgot the version, 

sys-kernel/genkernel-1.8

Comment 2 Brad House 2004-01-18 08:13:00 UTC

it does with genkernel 3.x
we're not supporting genkernel < 3