It would be nice to have symlinks like /boot/gentoo-kernel and /boot/gentoo-initramfs, so I don't have to edit my bootloader config manually at each update. genkernel has a similar feature. Since I suppose it is the maintainer's intention there can be several versions of sys-kernel/gentoo-kernel installed at once, it would be possible to do exactly as python or ruby do, and eselect the kernel version to symlink as the default. Additionally, I would like to request "fallback kernel and initramfs" symlinks so I can have a second entry in the bootloader for the previous kernel version. This is in case my new kernel does not boot. This is what genkernel does, by the way: /boot/kernel, /boot/initramfs, /boot/kernel.old and /boot/initramfs.old N.B. A bootloader entry per version (instead of just the previous version as I propose) would not be satisfactory, as I use a server and the bootloader (grub) needs to figure out on its own that the first kernel failed booting (it knows how to do this; it writes a marker to a file, indicating it attempted to boot a kernel, and that marker is overwritten by the booted system upon a successful boot). Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Review USE flags of sys-kernel/gentoo-kernel and find nothing related to symlink or eselect 2. Install sys-kernel/gentoo-kernel Actual Results: Found no symlink in /boot to the kernel installed by sys-kernel/gentoo-kernel, and no eselect module related to this for gentoo-kernel Found a symlink /boot/System.map -> System.map-5.10.47-gentoo-dist-hardened that belongs to no package whatsoever (how did it get there?!) Expected Results: A symlink collection like so: /boot/gentoo-vmlinuz -> vmlinuz-5.10.47-gentoo-dist-hardened /boot/gentoo-initramfs -> initramfs-5.10.47-gentoo-dist-hardened.img (optionally symlinks for the config and System.map files as well) And an eselect module to select which version of gentoo-kernel the symlinks point to.
I just found out that the kernel in /boot was not tracked by gentoo-kernel but created by installkernel. One question remains: how come there was a symlink for System.map created in the process, but nothing for the vmlinuz and initramfs?
The mysterious symlink was due to a "backwards compatibility" feature of installkernel-gentoo. Essentially there is nothing to see here, sorry for the noise
