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

To: "Christian Limpach" <Christian.Limpach@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] (revised slightly) create kernel symlinksin /boot
From: "Ian Pratt" <m+Ian.Pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 21:26:44 -0000
Cc: "Paul Larson" <plars@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Adam Heath" <doogie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "xen-devel" <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> 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.

OK, that makes sense, e.g.:

ln -sf `(cd ${src}/boot; echo vmlinuz-2.6.*-xen0)` vmlinuz-2.6-xen0
ln -sf vmlinuz-2.6-xen0 vmlinuz-xen0

We should do something similar with the xen version numbers too.

etc.

Personally, I'd quite like to also have a separate make target that
creates the links in the dist/install/boot directory as it would avoid
me having to keep editing my domain config scripts all the time...

Ian


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