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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] (revised slightly) create kernel symlinksin /boo

To: Ian Pratt <m+Ian.Pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] (revised slightly) create kernel symlinksin /boot
From: Christian Limpach <Christian.Limpach@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 20:19:28 +0000
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On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 07:47:08PM -0000, Ian Pratt wrote:
>   
> > > bzzt.  What if /boot and $(INSTALL_DIR)/boot are different 
> > partitions?
> > Oops, forgot to change that, fixed.  Needless to say, most of my boxes
> > have a pretty flat filesystem :)
> 
> What's wrong with:
> ln -s vmlinuz-$(FULLVERSION) $(INSTALL_DIR)/boot/vmlinuz-$(EXTRAVERSION)
> 
> In any event, wouldn't it be better to have a link from e.g.
> 
> vmlinux-2.6-xen0 -> vmlinuz-2.6.10-xen0 etc?
> 
> Am I missing the point of what you're proposing?

I think we shouldn't have a link at all, ideally a distribution's package
installer will create the links which work with the distribution's
bootloader configuration/setup.

Also all the ln -s solutions fail if you build twice, you'd need at least
ln -fs.

If we must have a link, then I think it should be created as part of
install.sh since that at least is less likely to get run when building
packages.

    christian



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