Bug 611948

Summary:	app-backup/rear - Incompatibility with Genkernel on x86
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Phil <whitepj>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Timo Eissler <morlix>
Status:	RESOLVED TEST-REQUEST
Severity:	normal	CC:	jstein, morlix, proxy-maint
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	633232

Description Phil 2017-03-07 11:37:45 UTC

PROBLEM: app-backup/rear bails out with error message "Cannot find kernel"
INVOCATION: rear -d -D mkrescue
INVESTIGATION: Log file shows that Rear is looking for the kernel file called kernel-genkernel-i686-4.9.6-gentoo-r1. However, kernel (and initrd) are generated by Genkernel - which names the file kernel-genkernel-x86-4.9.6-gentoo-r1.

This only appears to affect
System CHOST =  i686-pc-linux-gnu

(I have an x86_64 host which works without issue)

Comment 1 Phil 2017-03-07 13:11:11 UTC

ReaR relies on the output of uname -m to determine the machine architecture.
i686 in my case. Does Genkernel use a more simplistic approach to naming?

Comment 2 Timo Eissler 2018-08-18 21:18:25 UTC

I have created a new ebuild for ReaR 2.4 (https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=664004), can you please verify if the problem still exists with that version?