Bug 38019

Summary:	Genkernel overwrites existing kernels
Product:	Gentoo Hosted Projects	Reporter:	Bjorn <sweede>
Component:	genkernel	Assignee:	Brad House <brad>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	drobbins, livewire, x86-kernel
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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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