Bug 739440 – genkernel 4.1.0 doesn't handle multiple actions properly

• Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
• Product: Gentoo Hosted Projects

[Description Alex Orange 2020-08-28 21:18:02 UTC]

With old versions of genkernel (3.5) I could do:

genkernel --kernel-config=.... bzImage initramfs

and it would build first the bzImage and then the initramfs (a kernel without modules of course).

Now with genkernel 4.1.0 when I do the same it skips bzImage and tries to build the initramfs where it gets very confused.

In short, genkernel isn't handling multiple actions.

[Comment 1 Alex Orange 2020-08-28 21:19:24 UTC]

Oops, didn't see where genkernel lived.

[Comment 2 Thomas Deutschmann (RETIRED) 2020-08-28 21:54:13 UTC]

Are you saying that this is working in genkernel-3.5.3.3?

[Comment 3 Alex Orange 2020-08-31 18:56:27 UTC]

Yes, I actually used it before realizing that I'd forgotten to update genkernel, updated genkernel, tried to use that command and it didn't work.

[Comment 4 Thomas Deutschmann (RETIRED) 2020-08-31 20:30:35 UTC]

Could you please share use case for this? For example, you will end up with

  /boot/kernel-genkernel-x86_64-5.8.2-gentoo
  /boot/initramfs-genkernel-x86_64-5.8.2-gentoo

but

> # tree lib/modules/
> lib/modules/
> 
> 0 directories, 0 files

=> This kernel won't boot.

There isn't even any module in initramfs...

[Comment 5 Alex Orange 2020-09-01 01:18:55 UTC]

MODULES=n

[Comment 6 Alex Orange 2020-09-01 01:20:51 UTC]

Oh, and just to add, I haven't tried it with the genkernel admittedly, but the reason I never used "all" before is because that would barf with MODULES=n because it didn't check whether there were modules to build or not and just went ahead and did a "make modules" which of course would fail.

[Comment 7 Thomas Deutschmann (RETIRED) 2020-09-01 01:32:33 UTC]

Please try with genkernel-4... it shouldn't fail when .config doesn't contain any modules.

[Comment 8 Alex Orange 2020-09-01 01:50:43 UTC]

Ok, "all" does work.