I would like to provide an alternative implementation of /sbin/installkernel, so I would appreciate if the debianutils one could be made USE-optional.
Created attachment 387706 [details, diff] Suggested patch This one introduces controllable USE=installkernel to toggle it. I've removed USE=kernel_linux references because they are redundant then. We also need to p.u.mask: sys-apps/debianutils installkernel in default/bsd and prefix profiles, and un-p.u.mask in prefix/linux.
you want to provide an ebuild that installs /sbin/installkernel ? or you want to, on your own systems, install some local script ? the kernel build looks in ~/bin/ first.
Yes, I wanted to provide an ebuild with it. To install in gummiboot-compliant location.
your patch/idea looks fine. feel free to rebase/push :).
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=8845fb86370df98660919bfad9445df896322356 commit 8845fb86370df98660919bfad9445df896322356 Author: Lars Wendler <polynomial-c@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2018-01-02 13:32:39 +0000 Commit: Lars Wendler <polynomial-c@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2018-01-02 13:32:54 +0000 sys-apps/debianutils: Bump to version 4.8.4 Use "installkernel" USE flag to control installation of installkernel shell script. Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/527304 Package-Manager: Portage-2.3.19, Repoman-2.3.6 sys-apps/debianutils/Manifest | 1 + sys-apps/debianutils/debianutils-4.8.4.ebuild | 41 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ sys-apps/debianutils/metadata.xml | 11 ++++--- 3 files changed, 49 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
This USE flag should be +installkernel. Otherwise it will break many existing setups that rely on this behavior. Notably, this breaks existing handbook advice that says to call `make install` on the kernel tree.
Whoops looks like it already is and something else is happening. Sorry for the noise. Reclosing.
