Re: [gentoo-dev] issues with installing a new kernel

Pete Gavin wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 02:54:50AM +0100, Achim Gottinger wrote:
> > > I think it would be good if the /boot mounted check were done in the
> > > pkg_preinst() function, which gets called right before a merge.
> > >
> >
> > But a /boot partition is not neccesary.
> >
>
> Well, I added a simple check in pkg_preinst in
> linux-2.4.0.11-r3.ebuild to see if /boot exists in /etc/fstab, and if
> so, it mounts it, then it will unmount it in pkg_postinst.

Well, I don't like it if an ebuild script touches my filesystem.

I use automount here for boot and /boot is a symlink to /misc/boot.

So this solution does not work for me.

Since ebuild can run in runlevels other than 1 and linux is a multiuser
operating system
such things can messup other users work.

So such a thing should only run if we are in runlevel 1


>
>
> > > Yes, it's fine to call depmod -a; if possible, find a way to make it
> > > work with ${ROOT} so that we can merge to non-root filesystems and
> > > have depmod operate on the correct set of modules.
> >
>
> I also added a call to depmod -a with the -b swtich which allows you
> to specifiy a root directory to use.

Are you shure that works. I tested such a thing a while ago and it wrote
the mdoules.conf stuff for {version} to
/lib/modules{running version}.

The problem is the mount script in /tec/rc.d/init.d. I will modify it this
week because we want to enhance
the automatic generation of /etc/module.conf.
I will take care that depmod -a really runs when neccessary.

Yours
achim~

>
>
> Pete
>
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