Bug 31043 – [RFE] genkernel should create symlinks for kernel-${KV} and initrd-${KV} too

• Status: VERIFIED TEST-REQUEST
• Product: Gentoo Hosted Projects

[Description Alexander Papaspyrou 2003-10-13 08:53:53 UTC]

Currently, genkernel creates a symlink from
  /boot/System.map-${KV}
to
  /boot/System.map
only.

It would be very (*very*) helpful if this would be done for 
  /boot/kernel-${KV}
and
  /boot/initrd-${KV}
,too.

This would allow users to have a rather generic {grub|lilo}.conf, which has one
entry for the latest (current) kernel -- pointing to
/boot/{initrd,kernel,System.map} -- and another one to the previous (known as
working) kernel -- pointing to /boot/{initrd,kernel,System.map}.old.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. run genkernel
2. look at /boot
Actual Results:  
No symlinks whatsoever (except for System.map).

Expected Results:  
symlinks as symlinks can (the whole story).

ps. no "emerge info" output here, as it is irrelevant for this bug.

[Comment 1 Alexander Papaspyrou 2003-10-13 08:57:54 UTC]

Created attachment 19181 [details, diff]
patch for genkernel-1.8

This patches genkernel-1.8 to behave as stated in the initial bug report.

[Comment 2 Alexander Papaspyrou 2003-10-16 08:41:01 UTC]

Please review the patch and commit it upstream, or notify me how to do it
myself.

[Comment 3 Alexander Papaspyrou 2004-09-01 02:57:11 UTC]

As usual, the flow of time made this issue a non-issue. As such, I'm closing the bug.